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Total curvature and isoperimetric inequalities in pinched Cartan-Hadamard manifolds

Aug 2026 · 4 citations · 43 references
Mathematics

Abstract

We establish a sharp lower bound for the total Gauss-Kronecker curvature of convex hypersurfaces in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds with pinched negative curvature. The bound holds in all dimensions when the diameter is small relative to the curvature scale, and in dimensions 4 and 5 without any restriction on the diameter, provided that the pinching is sufficiently tight. The proofs are based on the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem and weighted Hsiung-Minkowski inequalities. As an application, we obtain the isoperimetric inequality of the Cartan-Hadamard conjecture in dimension 5 under sufficiently pinched curvature.

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