On stable compact minimal submanifolds of Riemannian product manifolds (Q1947330)

In this paper, the authors prove a classification theorem for stable compact minimal submanifolds of a Riemannian product of an \(m_1\)-dimensional hypersurface \(M_1\) in Euclidean space, \(m_1\geq 3\), and any Riemannian manifold \(M_2\), when the sectional curvature \(K_{M_1}\) of \(M_1\) satisfies \(1/\sqrt{m_1-1}\leq K_{M_1}\leq 1\). In particular, when the ambient space is an \(m\)-dimensional compact hypersurface \(M\) in Euclidean space, \(m\geq 3\), and if the sectional curvature \(K_M\) of \(M\) satisfies \(1/\sqrt{m+1}\leq K_M\leq 1\), then there exist no stable compact minimal submanifolds in \(M\).