On the curvature bounded sphere problem in $\mathbb{R}^3$
Differential Geometry
2026-01-27 v2
Abstract
We prove that if a topological sphere smoothly embedded into with normal curvatures absolutely bounded by is contained in an open ball of radius , then the region it bounds must contain a unit ball. This result suggests a potential direction for a problem formulated by D.Burago and A.Petrunin asking whether a topological sphere smoothly embedded in with normal curvatures absolutely bounded by encloses a volume of at least . The appendix presents an example illustrating an alternative aspect for this problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.06245,
title = {On the curvature bounded sphere problem in $\mathbb{R}^3$},
author = {Hongda Qiu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06245},
year = {2026}
}