An application of moser iteration to complete minimal submanifolds in a sphere

Abstract

We apply the Moser iteration method to obtain a pointwise bound on the norm of the second fundamental form from a bound on its Ln norm for a complete minimal submanifold in a sphere. As an application we show that a complete minimal submanifold in a sphere with finite total curvature and Ricci curvature bounded away from -∞ must be compact. This complements similar results of Osserman and Oliveira in the case the ambient space is the Euclidean and the hyperbolic space respectively.