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Stable Bernstein Problem in certain positively curved manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-10-23 v2

Abstract

We formulate stable Bernstein type theorems in certain positively curved ambient manifolds. In all dimensions, we prove that for any complete Riemannian manifold (Xn+1,g)(X^{n+1},g), if the Ricci curvature is non-negative and it positive BiRic curvature with α\alpha-decay, then any complete, two-sided, stable minimal immersion must be totally geodesic and Ric(ν,ν)\text{Ric}(\nu,\nu) vanish along the minimal immersion. For 4n+164\leq n+1\leq 6, we prove that the result still holds if (Xn+1,g)(X^{n+1},g) has uniform positive 33-intermediate curvature and non-negative (n1)(n-1)-Ricci curvature, which generalize Chodosh-Li-Stryker's result \cite{chodosh2024complete} for n+1=4n+1=4 to higher dimensions. As an immediate corollary, we show that, in all dimensions, for a complete Riemannian manifold (Xn+1,g)(X^{n+1},g), if it has uniform positive Ricci curvature and non-negative (n1)(n-1)-Ricci curvature then there is no (not necessarily) complete, two-sided, stable minimal immersion in (Xn+1,g)(X^{n+1},g).

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@article{arxiv.2510.18079,
  title  = {Stable Bernstein Problem in certain positively curved manifolds},
  author = {Xuan Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18079},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

There is a gap in the proof of Main Theorem 1

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