Geometric and topological rigidity of pinched submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds

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Autor principal: Vlachos, Theodoros
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author Vlachos, Theodoros
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contents We study the rigidity of compact submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary codimension that satisfy a sharp pinching condition involving the norm of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. Without assuming that the ambient manifold is a space form, we show that this condition imposes strong geometric and topological restrictions on the submanifold. The resulting theorems are sharp and provide extensions of several known results in the literature, particularly sphere theorems, without requiring additional assumptions.
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spellingShingle Geometric and topological rigidity of pinched submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds
Vlachos, Theodoros
Differential Geometry
53C40, 53C42
We study the rigidity of compact submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary codimension that satisfy a sharp pinching condition involving the norm of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. Without assuming that the ambient manifold is a space form, we show that this condition imposes strong geometric and topological restrictions on the submanifold. The resulting theorems are sharp and provide extensions of several known results in the literature, particularly sphere theorems, without requiring additional assumptions.
title Geometric and topological rigidity of pinched submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds
topic Differential Geometry
53C40, 53C42
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17246