A GLOBAL STUDY ON SUBMANIFOLDS OF CODIMENSION 2 IN A SPHERE

  • Published : 1996.12.01

Abstract

M be an ($n\geq3$)-dimensional compact connected and oriented Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed on an (n + 2)-dimensional sphere $S^{n+2}$(c). If all sectional curvatures of M are not less than a positive constant c, show that M is a real homology sphere.

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