A characterization of round spheres in space forms (Q1799048)

In this paper, the authors prove the following characterization of geodesic spheres in space forms: Let \(M^n\) be a complete Riemannian manifold with scalar curvature \(R\) bounded from below, and let \(f:M^n\to\mathbb Q^{n+1}_c\) be an isometric immersion, where \(\mathbb Q^{n+1}_c\) stands for the \((n+1)\)-dimensional complete simply-connected space of constant sectional curvature \(c\). In the case \(c\leq 0\), assume that \(f(M^n)\) is bounded, and in the case \(c>0\), that \(f(M^n)\) lies inside a geodesic ball of radius \(\rho<\pi/2\sqrt{c}\). If the mean curvature \(H\) is constant and, for some \(r=2,...,n\), the \(r\)-th mean curvature \(H_r\) is constant, then \(f(M^n)\) is a geodesic sphere of \(\mathbb Q^{n+1}_c\).