Rigidity of Area-Minimizing 2-Spheres in n-Manifolds with Positive Scalar Curvature

DOI10.1090/PROC/15033MaRDI QIDQ6315569arXivFDO

Authors Jintian Zhu

Publication date 13 March 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove that the least area of the non-contractible immersed spheres is no more than $4pi$ in any oriented compact manifold with dimension $n+2leq7$ which satisfies $Rgeq2$ and admits a map to $mathbf{S}^{2}imes{T}^n$ with nonzero degree. We also prove a rigidity result for the equality case. This can be viewed as a generalization of the result in [2] to higher dimensions.

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