On submanifolds of highly negatively curved spaces (Q2874681)

The authors investigate an isometric immersion \(\varphi\) of a complete \(m\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(M\) into a complete \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(N\) which possesses a pole \(p\) and whose radial sectional curvature is bounded from above by a smooth even function \(G\) of the distance from \(p\). Under certain conditions they obtain estimates of the mean curvature of \(\varphi\) and the spectrum of the Laplace operator of \(M\) that involve the extrinsic radius of \(\varphi\), that is, the radius of the smallest geodesic ball in \(N\) centered at \(p\) which contains the image \(\varphi(M)\), and the isoperimetric ratio of the model space of dimension \(m\) whose radial curvature is the function \(G\). They also consider a more general situation where \(M\) is immersed into a product \(N \times L\) where \(N\) is as above and \(L\) is a complete Riemannian manifold. This work recovers and extends previous results of the authors and others.