The DDVV conjecture for submanifolds of space forms
Let be an immersed submanifold of the space form , with scalar curvature , normal scalar curvature , and mean curvature tensor , where is the second fundamental form. DDVV conjecture. One has
This is also called the normal scalar curvature conjecture. It is a central pointwise inequality in submanifold geometry and is equivalent to a matrix inequality for the coefficients of the second fundamental form. The supplied text does not state whether it had been resolved.
References
Primary source
Zhiqin Lu, “Recent developments of the DDVV Conjecture”, arXiv:0708.3201 (2007).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2007). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0708.2921, arXiv:math/0610709.
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