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IMMERSION OF MANIFOLDS WITH UNBOUNDED IMAGE AND A MODIFIED MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE OF YAU

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

ALBERT BORBÉLY*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kuwait University, PO Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

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Let N be a complete Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed into a Hadamard manifold M. We show that the immersion cannot be bounded if the mean curvature of the immersed manifold is small compared with the curvature of M and the Laplacian of the distance function on N grows at most linearly. The latter condition is satisfied if the Ricci curvature of N does not approach too fast. The main tool in the proof is a modification of Yau’s maximum principle.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Australian Mathematical Society

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