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Sharp focal radius estimate and rigidity of hypersurfaces in manifolds with positive curvature

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We prove a sharp Clifford-threshold focal-radius estimate and rigidity for immersed hypersurfaces. Under a $p$-form curvature condition, formulated by the Weitzenb\"ock curvature term together with $\mathrm{Ric}_p\ge p$, any closed two-sided immersion $F:\Sigma^m\to M^{m+1}$ with $b_p(\Sigma;\mathbb R)\neq0$ and $1\le p\le m/2$ satisfies \[ r_f(F,M)\le\frac{\pi}{4}. \] The equality case is rigid: if the ambient manifold is complete, equality forces the hypersurface to be locally the Clifford hypersurface $S^p(1/\sqrt2)\times S^{m-p}(1/\sqrt2)\subset S^{m+1}(1)$; if the ambient manifold is compact and connected, it is a spherical space form. The curvature condition follows from $\sec\ge1$ for $p=1$, from normalized $\mathrm{PIC1}\ge1$ for $p=2$, and from curvature operator bounded below by one in all degrees. By quotient lifting and the Hopf fibrations, we also obtain focal-radius estimates in $\mathbb{CP}^n$ and $\mathbb{HP}^n$, with projective Clifford rigidity, without any Betti-number assumption.

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Maximal Normal Curvature and Veronese Rigidity

math.DG · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Proves κ(F) ≥ √(2n/(n+1)) for almost Hermitian (dim 2n) or quaternion-Hermitian (dim 4n) submanifolds with harmonic fundamental forms, with equality iff the form is parallel and the immersion is a standard Veronese embedding up to totally geodesic inclusion.

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    Proves κ(F) ≥ √(2n/(n+1)) for almost Hermitian (dim 2n) or quaternion-Hermitian (dim 4n) submanifolds with harmonic fundamental forms, with equality iff the form is parallel and the immersion is a standard Veronese embedding up to totally geodesic inclusion.