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In this note we use the strong maximum principle and integral estimates prove two results on minimal hypersurfaces $F:M^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with free boundary on the standard unit sphere. First we show that if $F$ is graphical…

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In this paper we find necessary and sufficient conditions for a nondegenerate arbitrary signature manifold $M^n$ to be realized as a submanifold in the large class of warped product manifolds $\varepsilon…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Carlos A. D. Ribeiro , Marcos F. de Melo

We identify the smooth metrics $\mc{M}(M)$ on a manifold $M^n$ with the smooth isometric embeddings $f_g: (M,g) \rightarrow (\mb{S}^{\tn}, \tg)$ into a standard sphere of large dimension $\tn=\tn(n)$, and their Palais isotopic deformations,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Santiago R. Simanca

We show that in every dimension $n \geq 8$, there exists a smooth closed manifold $M^n$ which does not admit a smooth positive scalar curvature ("psc") metric, but $M$ admits an $\mathrm{L}^\infty$-metric which is smooth and has psc outside…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Simone Cecchini , Georg Frenck , Rudolf Zeidler

Let $(M^n, g)(n\geq3)$ be an $n$-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with harmonic curvature and positive Yamabe constant. Denote by $R$ and $\mathring{Rm}$ the scalar curvature and the trace-free Riemannian curvature tensor of $M$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hai-Ping Fu , Li-Qun Xiao

In this paper, we investigate manifolds for which the curvature of the second kind (following the terminology of Nishikawa) satisfies certain positivity conditions. Our main result settles Nishikawa's conjecture that manifolds for which the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Matthew Gursky , Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

We derive general structure and rigidity theorems for submetries $f: M \to X$, where $M$ is a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $\sec M \ge 1$. When applied to a non-trivial Riemannian submersion, it follows that $diam X \leq…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Xiaoyang Chen , Karsten Grove

Let $\mathcal{C}(\mathcal{R},n,p,\Lambda,D,V_0)$ be the class of compact $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with finite diameter $\leq D$, non-collapsing volume $\geq V_0$ and $L^p$-bounded $\mathcal{R}$-curvature condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Conghan Dong

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

We study mean curvature flow in $\mathbb S_K^{n+1}$, the round sphere of sectional curvature $K>0$, under the quadratic curvature pinching condition $|A|^{2} < \frac{1}{n-2} H^{2} + 4 K$ when $n\ge 4$ and $|A|^{2} <…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen

In Moebius geometry there are two important tensors associated to an umbilic-free immersion $f:M^{n}\to \mathbb{S}^{m}$, namely the Moebius metric $\langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle^{*}$ and the Moebius second fundamental form $\beta$. In [11]…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Mateus Antas

This paper deals with the generalization of usual round spheres in the flat Minkowski spacetime to the case of a generic four-dimensional spacetime manifold $M$. We consider geometric properties of sphere-like submanifolds in $M$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 Hans-Peter Gittel , Jacek Jezierski , Jerzy Kijowski

In this paper, we first study isometric immersions $f: M^n\rightarrow M^{n+k}(c), n\geq 3,$ into space forms with flat normal bundle and constant scalar curvature $R.$ Under a suitable multiplicity condition on the second fundamental form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 H. A. Gururaja

In this paper, we prove that any closed minimal hypersurface $M^4$ in the $5$-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^5$ with constant scalar curvature and constant $3$-th mean curvature must be isoparametric. To be precise, $M^4$ is either an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Chengchao He , Hongwei Xu , Entao Zhao

We show that a complete $m$-dimensional immersed submanifold $M$ of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with $a(M)<1$ is properly immersed and have finite topology, where $a(M)\in [0,\infty]$ is an scaling invariant number that gives the rate that the norm of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-06 G. Pacelli Bessa , L. Jorge , J. Fabio Montenegro

Let the warped product $M^n=L^m\times_\varphi F^{n-m}$, $n\geq m+3\geq 8$, of Riemannian manifolds be an Einstein manifold with Ricci curvature $\rho$ that admits an isometric immersion into Euclidean space with codimension two. Under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-19 M. Dajczer , C. -R. Onti , Th. Vlachos

On a Riemannian manifold with a smooth function $f: M\to \mathbb{R}$, we consider the linearization of the Perelman scalar curvature $\mathcal{R}$ and its $L^2$-formal adjoint operator $\delta\mathcal{R}^*$. A manifold endowed with a metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Márcio Batista , Allan Freitas , Márcio Santos

A theorem of Llarull says that if a smooth metric $g$ on the $n$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ is bounded below by the standard round metric and the scalar curvature $R_g$ of $g$ is bounded below by $n (n - 1)$, then the metric $g$ must be the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Xiaoxiang Chai , Juncheol Pyo , Xueyuan Wan

Let $M\subset S^{n+1}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+2}$ be a compact minimal hypersurface of the $n$-dimensional Euclidean unit sphere. Let us denote by $|A|^2$ the square of the norm of the second fundamental form and $J(f)=-\Delta f-nf-|A|^2f$ the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Oscar M. Perdomo

In this note, we study Einstein manifolds whose curvature operator of the second kind $\mathring{R}$ satisfies the cone condition \[ \alpha^{-1}\big(\sum_{i=1}^{[\alpha]} \lambda_i+ (\alpha - [\alpha] ) \lambda_{[\alpha] + 1} \big) \ge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Haiqing Cheng , Kui Wang