Remarks on the rigidity and stability of minimal submanifolds
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Abstract:
We improve the pinching theorem of Simons and the stability theorem of Barbosa and do Carmo with an elementary method.References
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- © Copyright 1989 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 106 (1989), 793-795
- MSC: Primary 53C42; Secondary 53A10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1989-0969526-1
- MathSciNet review: 969526