Bi-Ricci curvature conjecture for immersions into the unit ball
Let be a closed manifold and let be an immersion. Write for the induced metric, and let denote its minimal normal curvature. Bi-Ricci curvature conjecture. If
then is conformally equivalent to a metric of positive bi-Ricci curvature. This would improve the available bound for ; the conjecture is known when the immersion lies on the unit sphere, but extending the argument to general maps into remains open.
References
Primary source
Otis Chodosh and Chao Li, “Immersions with small normal curvature”, arXiv:2602.15728 (2026).
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