scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1159891

Publication date 7 December 1998

conformally flat space locally symmetric space pinching second fundamental form

Local submanifolds (53B25) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Let \(M^{m}\) be an \(m\)-dimensional, locally symmetric, conformally flat Riemannian manifold and \(N\) an \(n\)-dimensional submanifold of \(M^{m}\). At each point \(x\in N\), denote by \(R,K, S\) and \(T_c\) the scalar curvature, the sectional curvature, the squared norm of the second fundamental form and the maximum value of the Ricci curvature at \(x\). The author proves that if \[ R\geq (n-2)S+{{(n-1)(n-2)}\over{m-2}}\left( 2T_c- {K \over {m-1}}\right)+2(n-1)c\tag{1} \] holds at a point \(x\in N\), then \(K\geq c\) at \(x\). This extends a result of \textit{B.-Y. Chen} and \textit{M. Okumura} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 38, 605-608 (1973; Zbl 0256.53041)] in which a similar result was proved for arbitrary submanifolds in real space forms. Two immediate applications of the result are also presented in this paper.

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