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On the codimension of a minimal immersion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Pui-Fai Leung
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 0511.
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Abstract

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We show that a certain local pinching condition on a compact minimal submanifold in a sphere leads to a condition on the codimension of the immersion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1984

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