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We prove that some Riemannian manifolds with boundary under an explicit integral pinching are spherical space forms. Precisely, we show that 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with totally geodesic boundary, positive scalar curvature and an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Giovanni Catino , Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

Let $M^n$ be an $n$-dimensional closed minimal submanifold immersed in the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+m}$. Denote by $S$ and $\rho^{\perp}$ the squared norm of the second fundamental form and the normal scalar curvature of $M^n$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Jianquan Ge , Fagui Li , Yunheng Zhang

We consider isometric immersions of complete connected Riemannian manifolds into space forms of nonzero constant curvature. We prove that if such an immersion is compact and has semi-definite second fundamental form, then it is an embedding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Ronaldo F. de Lima , Rubens L. de Andrade

We prove, as our main theorem, the finiteness of topological type of a complete open Riemannian manifold $M$ with a base point $p \in M$ whose radial curvature at $p$ is bounded from below by that of a non-compact model surface of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-07 Kei Kondo , Minoru Tanaka

In [CKM17], Chodosh, Ketover, and Maximo proved finite diffeomorphism theorems for complete embedded minimal hypersurfaces of dimension $\leqslant$ 6 with finite index and bounded volume growth ratio. In this paper, we adapt their method to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Qi Ding , Lei Zhang

We prove that strong finite total curvature complete hypersurfaces of (n+1)-euclidean space are proper and diffeomorphic to a compact manifold minus finitely many points. With an additional condition, we also prove that the Gauss map of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Manfredo do Carmo , Maria Fernanda Elbert

An immersion of a compact manifold is tight if it admits the minimal total absolute curvature over all immersions of the manifold. A prominent result in the study of minimal total absolute curvature immersions is the theorem of Chern and…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ross Niebergall , Gudlaugur Thorbergsson

It is known that a complete immersed minimal surface with finite total curvature in $\mathbb H^2\times\mathbb R$ is proper, has finite topology and each one of its ends is asymptotic to a geodesic polygon at infinity (Hauswirth and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Laurent Hauswirth , Ana Menezes , Magdalena Rodríguez

In this paper we extend Efimov's Theorem by proving that any complete surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Gauss curvature bounded above by a negative constant outside a compact set has finite total curvature, finite area and is properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-11 José A. Gálvez , Antonio Martínez , José L. Teruel

Let $x:M\to S^{n+p}$ be an $n$-dimensional submanifold in an $(n+p)$-dimensional unit sphere $S^{n+p}$, $x:M\to S^{n+p}$ is called a Willmore submanifold to the following Willmore functional: $$ \int_M(S-nH^2)^{\frac{n}{2}}dv, $$ where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Haizhong Li

We prove that a sequence of possibly branched, weak immersions of the two-sphere $S^2$ into an arbitrary compact riemannian manifold $(M^m,h)$ with uniformly bounded area and uniformly bounded $L^2-$norm of the second fundamental form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Andrea Mondino , Tristan Rivière

In this paper, we prove for $n\leq 7$ that if a differentiable $n$-manifold contains a relatively incompressible essential hypersurface in some class $\mathcal C_{deg}$, then it admits no complete metric with positive scalar curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Jie Chen , Peng Liu , Yuguang Shi , Jintian Zhu

Let $(M,\bar{g}, e^{-f}d\mu)$ be a complete metric measure space with Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive constant. We prove that, in $M$, there is no complete two-sided $L_f$-stable immersed $f$-minimal hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Xu Cheng , Tito Mejia , Detang Zhou

In this article, we prove an eigenvalue pinching theorem for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on compact hypersurfaces in a sphere. Let $(M^n,g)$ be a closed, connected and oriented Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed by $\phi$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Yingxiang Hu , Hongwei Xu

For a closed minimal submanifold $f:M^n\looparrowright \mathbb{S}^{N}$ in the unit sphere $(n<N)$, we prove $${\rm Vol}(M^n) \geq\frac{n+1}{n+2}\int_{M}\left( 1+\varphi_{p}^2\right) \geq m{\rm Vol}(\mathbb{S}^{n}),$$ where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Jianquan Ge , Fagui Li

In this paper, we study complete oriented $f$-minimal hypersurfaces properly immersed in a cylinder shrinking soliton $(\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}, \bar{g}, f)$. We prove that such hypersurface with $L_f$-index one must be either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Xu Cheng , Detang Zhou

We study curvature functionals for immersed 2-spheres in non-compact, three-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M,h)$ without boundary. First, under the assumption that $(M,h)$ is the euclidean 3-space endowed with a semi-perturbed metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Andrea Mondino , Johannes Schygulla

A result of B.Solomon (On the Gauss map of an area-minimizing hypersurface. 1984. Journal of Differential Geometry, 19(1), 221-232.) says that a compact minimal hypersurface $M^k$ of the sphere $S^{k+1}$ with $H^1(M)=0$, whose Gauss map…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Renan Assimos , Jürgen Jost

In this note we characterize compact hypersurfaces of dimension $n\geq 2$ with constant mean curvature $H$ immersed in space forms of constant curvature and satisfying an optimal integral pinching condition: they are either totally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Giovanni Catino

Let $M^n$ be an $n$-dimensional complete and locally conformally flat hypersurface in the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ with constant scalar curvature $n(n-1)$. We show that if the total curvature $\left( \int _ { M } | H | ^ { n } d v…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Jinchuan Bai , Yong Luo