Lawson–Simons conjecture for submanifolds in spheres
Let be an -dimensional closed submanifold satisfying
where is the second fundamental form. Lawson–Simons conjecture. The mean curvature flow with initial value converges to a round point or a totally geodesic sphere. In particular, is diffeomorphic to . 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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