Lawson–Simons conjecture for submanifolds in spheres

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Let F0:Mn→Sn+qF_{0}:M^{n}\to\mathbb{S}^{n+q} be an nn-dimensional closed submanifold satisfying

∣h∣2<2n−1,|h|^{2}<2\sqrt{n-1},

where hh is the second fundamental form. Lawson–Simons conjecture. The mean curvature flow with initial value F0F_{0} converges to a round point or a totally geodesic sphere. In particular, M0M_{0} is diffeomorphic to Sn\mathbb{S}^{n}. The source presents this as a special case motivated by the minimum of the pinching function and explicitly states that the Lawson–Simons conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Li Lei and Hongwei Xu, “Mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in spheres and sharp differentiable sphere theorem”, arXiv:1506.06371 (2021).

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