Low energy canonical immersions into hyperbolic manifolds and standard spheres

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_61117_05MaRDI QIDQ517518zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Heberto Del Rio, Walcy Santos, Santiago R. Simanca

Publication date 24 March 2017

Published in Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6456

zbMATH Keywords

canonically placed Riemannian manifoldcritical pointembeddingsimmersionsmean curvature vectorsecond fundamental form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70)

Abstract: We consider critical points of the functionals $Pi$ and $Psi$ defined as the global $L^2$-norm of the second fundamental form and mean curvature vector of isometric immersions of compact Riemannian manifolds into a background Riemannian manifold, respectively, as functionals over the space of deformations of the immersion. We prove gap theorems for these functionals into hyperbolic manifolds, and show that the celebrated gap theorem for minimal immersions into the sphere can be cast as a theorem about critical points of these functionals of constant mean curvature function, and whose second fundamental form is suitably small in relation to it. In this case, the various type of minimal submanifolds that can occur at the pointwise upper bound on the norm of the second fundamental form are realized by manifolds of nonnegative Ricci curvature, and of these, the Einstein ones are distinguished from the others by being those that are immersed on the sphere as critical points of $Pi$.

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