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Rigidity of submanifolds with parallel mean curvature in space froms

Differential Geometry 2011-05-17 v1

Abstract

Let MM be an n(3)n(\geq3)-dimensional oriented compact submanifold with parallel mean curvature in the simply connected space form Fn+p(c)F^{n+p}(c) with c+H2>0c+H^2>0, where HH is the mean curvature of MM. We prove that if the Ricci curvature of MM satisfies RicM(n2)(c+H2),Ric_{M}\geq(n-2)(c+H^2), then MM is either a totally umbilic sphere, the Clifford hypersurface Sm(12(c+H2))×Sm(12(c+H2))S^{m}\big(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2(c+H^2)}}\big)\times S^{m}\big(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2(c+H^2)}}\big) in Sn+1(1c+H2)S^{n+1}(\frac{1}{\sqrt{c+H^2}}) with n=2mn=2m, or CP2(4/3(c+H2))\mathbb{C}P^{2}(4/3(c+H^2)) in S7(1c+H2)S^7(\frac{1}{\sqrt{c+H^2}}). In particular, if RicM>(n2)(c+H2),Ric_{M}>(n-2)(c+H^2), then MM is a totally umbilic sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1105.2920,
  title  = {Rigidity of submanifolds with parallel mean curvature in space froms},
  author = {Hong-Wei Xu and Juan-Ru Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.2920},
  year   = {2011}
}

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