{"title":"Diameter and focal radius of submanifolds","authors":"Ricardo A. E. Mendes","doi":"10.1007/s10455-025-10010-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this note, we give a characterization of immersed submanifolds of simply-connected space forms for which the quotient of the extrinsic diameter by the focal radius achieves the minimum possible value of 2. They are essentially round spheres, or the “Veronese” embeddings of projective spaces. The proof combines the classification of submanifolds with planar geodesics due to K. Sakamoto with a version of A. Schur’s Bow Lemma for space curves. Open problems and the relation to recent work by M. Gromov and A. Petrunin are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":"68 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10455-025-10010-7","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this note, we give a characterization of immersed submanifolds of simply-connected space forms for which the quotient of the extrinsic diameter by the focal radius achieves the minimum possible value of 2. They are essentially round spheres, or the “Veronese” embeddings of projective spaces. The proof combines the classification of submanifolds with planar geodesics due to K. Sakamoto with a version of A. Schur’s Bow Lemma for space curves. Open problems and the relation to recent work by M. Gromov and A. Petrunin are discussed.
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This journal examines global problems of geometry and analysis as well as the interactions between these fields and their application to problems of theoretical physics. It contributes to an enlargement of the international exchange of research results in the field.
The areas covered in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry include: global analysis, differential geometry, complex manifolds and related results from complex analysis and algebraic geometry, Lie groups, Lie transformation groups and harmonic analysis, variational calculus, applications of differential geometry and global analysis to problems of theoretical physics.