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We prove spectral, stochastic and mean curvature estimates for complete $m$-submanifolds $varphi colon M to N$ of $n$-manifolds with a pole $N$ in terms of the comparison isoperimetric ratio $I_{m}$ and the extrinsic radius $r_varphileq infty$. Our proof holds for the bounded case $r_varphi< infty$, recovering the known results, as well as for the unbounded case $r_{varphi}=infty$. In both cases, the fundamental ingredient in these estimates is the integrability over $(0, r_varphi)$ of the inverse $I_{m}^{-1}$ of the comparison isoperimetric radius. When $r_{varphi}=infty$, this condition is guaranteed if $N$ is highly negatively curved.
We prove mean curvature estimates and a Jorge-Koutroufiotis type theorem for submanifolds confined into either a horocylinder of N X L or a horoball of N, where N is a Cartan-Hadamard manifold with pinched curvature. Thus, these submanifolds behave in many respects like submanifolds immersed into compact balls and into cylinders over compact balls. The proofs rely on the Hessian comparison theorem for the Busemann function.
We give lower bounds for the fundamental tone of open sets in minimal submanifolds immersed into warped product spaces of type $N^n times_f Q^q$, where $f in C^infty(N)$. We also study the essential spectrum of these minimal submanifolds.
Jorge-Koutrofiotis and Pigola-Rigoli-Setti proved sharp sectional curvature estimates for extrinsically bounded submanifolds. Alias, Bessa and Montenegro showed that these estimates hold on properly immersed cylindrically bounded submanifolds. On the other hand, Alias, Bessa and Dajczer proved sharp mean curvature estimates for properly immersed cylindrically bounded submanifolds. In this paper we prove these sectional and mean curvature estimates for a larger class of submanifolds, the properly immersed $phi$-bounded submanifolds.
We establish extremality of Riemannian metrics g with non-negative curvature operator on symmetric spaces M=G/K of compact type with rk(G)-rk(K)le 1. Let g be another metric with scalar curvature k, such that gge g on 2-vectors. We show that kge k everywhere on M implies k=k. Under an additional condition on the Ricci curvature of g, kge k even implies g=g. We also study area-non-increasing spin maps onto such Riemannian manifolds.
Let $nge 2$ and $kge 1$ be two integers. Let $M$ be an isometrically immersed closed $n$-submanifold of co-dimension $k$ that is homotopic to a point in a complete manifold $N$, where the sectional curvature of $N$ is no more than $delta<0$. We prove that the total squared mean curvature of $M$ in $N$ and the first non-zero eigenvalue $lambda_1(M)$ of $M$ satisfies $$lambda_1(M)le nleft(delta +frac{1}{operatorname{Vol} M}int_M |H|^2 operatorname{dvol}right).$$ The equality implies that $M$ is minimally immersed in a metric sphere after lifted to the universal cover of $N$. This completely settles an open problem raised by E. Heintze in 1988.