On the Structure of Submanifolds with Degenerate Gauss Maps

An n-dimensional submanifold X of a projective space P ^N (C) is called tangentially degenerate if the rank of its Gauss mapping gamma;; X G(n, N) satisfies 0 < rank < n. The authors systematically study the geometry of tangentially degenerate submanifolds of a projective space P ^N (C). By means of the focal images, three basic types of submanifolds are discovered: cones, tangentially degenerate hypersurfaces, and torsal submanifolds. Moreover, for tangentially degenerate submanifolds, a structural theorem is proven. By this theorem, tangentially degenerate submanifolds that do not belong to one of the basic types are foliated into submanifolds of basic types. In the proof the authors introduce irreducible, reducible, and completely reducible tangentially degenerate submanifolds. It is found that cones and tangentially degenerate hypersurfaces are irreducible, and torsal submanifolds are completely reducible while all other tangentially degenerate submanifolds not belonging to basic types are reducible.     

A Second Main Theorem of Nevanlinna Theory for Meromorphic Functions on Complex Submanifolds in C<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

We show a second main theorem of Nevalinna theory for meromorphic functions on complex submanifolds in C ⁿ . This has a similar form to the classical one and has a remainder term including Ricci curvature. We also give a concrete computation of the remainder term in the case of nonsingular algebraic submanifolds. Partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Averaging of Legendrian Submanifolds of Contact Manifolds

We give a procedure to ‘average’ canonically C¹-close Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds. As a corollary we obtain that, whenever a compact group action leaves a Legendrian submanifold almost invariant, there is an invariant Legendrian submanifold nearby. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53D10.     

Theory of submanifolds,associativity equations in 2D topological quantum field theories,and Frobenius manifolds

We prove that the associativity equations of two-dimensional topological quantum field theories are very natural reductions of the fundamental nonlinear equations of the theory of submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces and give a natural class of flat torsionless potential submanifolds. We show that all flat torsionless potential submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces bear natural structures of Frobenius algebras on their tangent spaces. These Frobenius structures are generated by the corresponding flat first fundamental form and the set of the second fundamental forms of the submanifolds (in fact, the structural constants are given by the set of the Weingarten operators of the submanifolds). We prove that each N-dimensional Frobenius manifold can be locally represented as a flat torsionless potential submanifold in a 2N-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space. By our construction, this submanifold is uniquely determined up to motions. Moreover, we consider a nonlinear system that is a natural generalization of the associativity equations, namely, the system describing all flat torsionless submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces, and prove that this system is integrable by the inverse scattering method. To the memory of my wonderful mother Maya Nikolayevna Mokhova (4 May 1926–12 September 2006) Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 152, No. 2, pp. 368–376, August, 2007.     

Classification of Casorati ideal Lagrangian submanifolds in complex space forms

In this paper, using optimization methods on Riemannian submanifolds, we establish two improved inequalities for generalized normalized δ-Casorati curvatures of Lagrangian submanifolds in complex space forms. We provide examples showing that these inequalities are the best possible and classify all Casorati ideal Lagrangian submanifolds (in the sense of B.-Y. Chen) in a complex space form. In particular, we generalize the recent results obtained in G.E. Vîlcu (2018) [34].     

Ideal <Emphasis Type="Italic">C</Emphasis>-totally real submanifolds in Sasakian space forms

Roughly speaking, an ideal immersion of a Riemannian manifold into a space form is an isometric immersion which produces the least possible amount of tension from the ambient space at each point of the submanifold. Recently, B.-Y. Chen classified Lagrangian immersions in complex space forms, which are ideal. In the present paper, we investigate ideal C-totally real submanifolds in a Sasakian space form. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 53C40, 53C25     

Certain condition on the second fundamental form of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of complex Euclidean space

We treat m-dimensional real submanifolds M of complex space forms ̿M when the maximal holomorphic tangent subspace is (m−1)-dimensional. On these manifolds there exists an almost contact structure F which is naturally induced from the ambient space and in this paper we study the condition h(FX,Y)−h(X,FY) = g(FX,Y)η, η∊ T⊥(M), on the structure F and on the second fundamental form h of these submanifolds. Especially when the ambient space ̿M is a complex Euclidean space, we obtain a complete classification of submanifolds M which satisfy these conditions.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53C15, 53C40, 53B20.     

Austere and arid properties for PF submanifolds in Hilbert spaces

Austere submanifolds and arid submanifolds constitute respectively two different classes of minimal submanifolds in finite dimensional Riemannian manifolds. In this paper we introduce the concepts of these submanifolds into a class of proper Fredholm (PF) submanifolds in Hilbert spaces, discuss their relation and show examples of infinite dimensional austere PF submanifolds and arid PF submanifolds in Hilbert spaces. We also mention a classification problem of minimal orbits in hyperpolar PF actions on Hilbert spaces.     

Locally symmetric minimal affine Lagrangian surfaces in C<Superscript>2</Superscript>

One of the basic facts known in the theory of minimal Lagrangian surfaces is that a minimal Lagrangian surface of constant curvature in C ² must be totally geodesic. In affine geometry the constancy of curvature corresponds to the local symmetry of a connection. In Opozda (Geom. Dedic. 121:155–166, 2006), we proposed an affine version of the theory of minimal Lagrangian submanifolds. In this paper we give a local classification of locally symmetric minimal affine Lagrangian surfaces in C ². Only very few of surfaces obtained in the classification theorems are Lagrangian in the sense of metric (pseudo-Riemannian) geometry. The research supported by the KBN grant 1 PO3A 034 26.     

Semi-Slant Submanifolds of a Sasakian Manifold

We define and study both bi-slant and semi-slant submanifolds of an almost contact metric manifold and, in particular, of a Sasakian manifold. We prove a characterization theorem for semi-slant submanifolds and we obtain integrability conditions for the distributions which are involved in the definition of such submanifolds. We also study an interesting particular class of semi-slant submanifolds.     

Parallel Codazzi tensors with submanifold applications

A decomposition theorem is established for a class of closed Riemannian submanifolds immersed in a space form of the constant sectional curvature. In particular, it is shown that if M has nonnegative sectional curvature and admits a Codazzi tensor with “parallel mean curvature”, then M is locally isometric to a direct product of irreducible factors determined by the spectrum of that tensor. This decomposition is global when M is simply connected, and generalizes what is known for immersed submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector.     

Proper Submanifolds in Product Manifolds

The authors obtain various versions of the Omori-Yau's maximum principle on complete properly immersed submanifolds with controlled mean curvature in certain product manifolds,in complete Riemannian manifolds whose k-Ricci curvature has strong quadratic decay,and also obtain a maximum principle for mean curvature flow of complete manifolds with bounded mean curvature.Using the generalized maximum principle,an estimate on the mean curvature of properly immersed submanifolds with bounded projection in N1 in the product manifold N1 ×N2 is given.Other applications of the generalized maximum principle are also given.     

Non-Existence of Stable Currents in Hypersurfaces

Let M^m be a compact hypersurface in the Euclidean space E^m+1. In this paper, we study the non-existence of stable integral currents in M^m and its immersed submanifolds. Some vanishing theorems concerning the homology groups of these manifolds are established.AMS Subject Classification (1991): 49Q15 53C40 53C20     

A criterion for reduction of variables in the Willmore-Chen variational problem and its applications

We exhibit a criterion for a reduction of variables for Willmore-Chen submanifolds in conformal classes associated with generalized Kaluza-Klein metrics on flat principal fibre bundles. Our method relates the variational problem of Willmore-Chen with an elasticity functional defined for closed curves in the base space. The main ideas involve the extrinsic conformal invariance of the Willmore-Chen functional, the large symmetry group of generalized Kaluza-Klein metrics and the principle of symmetric criticality. We also obtain interesting families of elasticae in both lens spaces and surfaces of revolution (Riemannian and Lorentzian). We give applications to the construction of explicit examples of isolated Willmore-Chen submanifolds, discrete families of Willmore-Chen submanifolds and foliations whose leaves are Willmore-Chen submanifolds.

     

Variational formulas of higher order mean curvatures

In this paper,we establish the first variational formula and its Euler-Lagrange equation for the total 2p-th mean curvature functional M2p of a submanifold M n in a general Riemannian manifold N n+m for p = 0,1,...,[n 2 ].As an example,we prove that closed complex submanifolds in complex projective spaces are critical points of the functional M2p,called relatively 2p-minimal submanifolds,for all p.At last,we discuss the relations between relatively 2p-minimal submanifolds and austere submanifolds in real space forms,as well as a special variational problem.     

SLANT SUBMANIFOLDS OF A RIEMANNIAN PRODUCT MANIFOLD

In this article, the geometry of the slant submanifolds of a Riemannian product manifold is studied. Some necessary and sufficient conditions on slant, bi-slant and semi-slant submanifolds are given. We research fundamental properties of the distributions which are involved in definitions of semi- and bi-slant submanifolds in a Riemannian product manifold.     

Induced generalized <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis>-space-form structures on submanifolds

We study non-anti-invariant slant submanifolds of generalized S-space-forms with two structure vector felds in order to know if they inherit the ambient structure. In this context, we focus on totally geodesic, totally umbilical, totally ƒ-geodesic and totally ƒ-umbilical non-anti-invariant slant submanifolds and obtain some obstructions. Moreover, we present some new interesting examples of generalized S-space-forms.     

Four‐dimensional contact ‐submanifolds in

The analogue of ‐submanifolds in (almost) Kählerian manifolds is the concept of contact ‐submanifolds in Sasakian manifolds. These are submanifolds for which the structure vector field ξ is tangent to the submanifold and for which the tangent bundle of M can be decomposed as , where is invariant with respect to the endomorphism φ and is antiinvariant with respect to φ. The lowest possible dimension for M in which this decomposition is non trivial is the dimension 4. In this paper we obtain a complete classification of four‐dimensional contact ‐submanifolds in and for which the second fundamental form restricted to and vanishes identically.