Geometry of Warped Product CR-Submanifolds in Kaehler Manifolds, II

 A CR-submanifold N of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if N is the warped product of a holomorphic submanifold and a totally real submanifold of . This notion of CR-warped products was introduced in part I of this series. It was proved in part I that every CR-warped product in a Kaehler manifold satisfies a basic inequality: . The classification of CR-warped products in complex Euclidean space satisfying the equality case of the inequality is archived in part I. The main purpose of this second part of this series is to classify CR-warped products in complex projective and complex hyperbolic spaces which satisfy the equality. (Received 13 March 2001; in revised form 10 August 2001)     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">CR</Emphasis>-Warped Products in Complex Projective Spaces with Compact Holomorphic Factor

A submanifold of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if it is the warped product N_T ×_fN of a complex submanifold N_T and a totally real submanifold N. There exist many CR-warped products N_T ×_fN in CP^h+p, h = dim_CN_T and p = dim_RN (see [5, 6]). In contrast, we prove in this article that the situation is quite different if the holomorphic factor N_T is compact. For such CR-wraped products in CP^m (4), we prove the following: (1) The complex dimension m of the ambient space is at least h + p + hp. (2) If m = h + p + hp, then N_T is CP^h(4). We also obtain two geometric inequalities for CR-warped products in CP^m with compact N_T.     

Geometry of Warped Product CR-Submanifolds in Kaehler Manifolds, II

 A CR-submanifold N of a Kaehler manifold is called a CR-warped product if N is the warped product of a holomorphic submanifold and a totally real submanifold of . This notion of CR-warped products was introduced in part I of this series. It was proved in part I that every CR-warped product in a Kaehler manifold satisfies a basic inequality: . The classification of CR-warped products in complex Euclidean space satisfying the equality case of the inequality is archived in part I. The main purpose of this second part of this series is to classify CR-warped products in complex projective and complex hyperbolic spaces which satisfy the equality.     

Riemannian submersions with minimal fibers and affine hypersurfaces

Let π : M → B be a Riemannian submersion with minimal fibers. In this article we prove the following results: (1) If M is positively curved, then the horizontal distribution of the submersion is a non-totally geodesic distribution; (2) if M is non-negatively (respectively, negatively) curved, then the fibers of the submersion have non-positive (respectively, negative) scalar curvature; and (3) if M can be realized either as an elliptic proper centroaffine hypersphere or as an improper hypersphere in some affine space, then the horizontal distribution is non-totally geodesic. Several applications are also presented.     

Submanifolds of Weyl Flat Manifolds

 We consider compact Weyl submanifolds of Weyl flat manifolds with special attention on compact Einstein-Weyl hypersurfaces. In particular, in the last part of the paper, we study Weyl submanifolds of special noncompact manifolds, called PC-manifolds. Received July 16, 2001; in revised form February 6, 2002 Published online August 9, 2002     

Doubly warped product <Emphasis Type="Italic">CR</Emphasis>-submanifolds in locally conformal Kähler manifolds

In this paper we study doubly warped product CR submanifolds in locally conformal K?hler manifolds, and we found a B.Y. Chen’s type inequality for the second fundamental form of these submanifolds. Beneficiary of a CNR-NATO Advanced Research Fellowship pos. 216.2167 Prot. n. 0015506.     

A Practical Criterion For Some Submanifolds To Be Totally Geodesic

Our main theorem is a characterization of a totally geodesic K?hler immersion of a complex n-dimensional K?hler manifold M _n into an arbitrary complex (n + p)-dimensional K?hler manifold by observing the extrinsic shape of K?hler Frenet curves on the submanifold M _n . Those curves are closely related to the complex structure of M _n .     

Characterizations of Some Product Manifolds by Their Spectrum

Let Sⁿ(c) denote the n-dimensional Euclidean sphere of constant sectional curvature c and denote by CPⁿ(c) the complex projective space of complex dimension n and of holomorphic sectional curvature c. In this paper, we obtain some characterizations of the manifolds S²(c) × S²(c′), S⁴(c) × S⁴(c′), CP²(c) × CP²(c′) by their spectrum.     

Compositions of isometric immersions¶in higher codimension

Given a submanifold M ⁿ of Euclidean space ℝ ^{n + p} with codimension p≤6, under generic conditions on its second fundamental form, we show that any other isometric immersion of M ⁿ into ℝ ^{n + p + q} , 0≤q≤n− 2p−1 and 2q≤n+ 1 if q≥ 5, must be locally a composition of isometric immersions. This generalizes several previous results on rigidity and compositions of submanifolds. We also provide conditions under which our result is global. 14 March 2001     

Rigidity Theorem for Hypersurfaces in a Unit Sphere

By investigating hypersurfaces M ⁿ in the unit sphere S ⁿ⁺¹(1) with H _k = 0 and with two distinct principal curvatures, we give a characterization of torus the . We extend recent results of Perdomo [9], Wang [10] and Otsuki [8].     

Complete Hypersurfaces with Constant Mean Curvature in a Unit Sphere

By investigating hypersurfaces M ⁿ in the unit sphere S ⁿ⁺¹(1) with constant mean curvature and with two distinct principal curvatures, we give a characterization of the torus S ¹(a) × , where . We extend recent results of Hasanis et al. [5] and Otsuki [10].     

Complete harmonic stable minimal hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold

In this paper, we will introduce the notion of harmonic stability for complete minimal hypersurfaces in a complete Riemannian manifold. The first result we prove, is that a complete harmonic stable minimal surface in a Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature is conformally equivalent to either a plane R ² or a cylinder R × S ¹, which generalizes a theorem due to Fischer-Colbrie and Schoen [12]. The second one is that an n ≥ 2-dimensional, complete harmonic stable minimal, hypersurface M in a complete Riemannian manifold with non-negative sectional curvature has only one end if M is non-parabolic. The third one, which we prove, is that there exist no non-trivial L ²-harmonic one forms on a complete harmonic stable minimal hypersurface in a complete Riemannian manifold with non-negative sectional curvature. Since the harmonic stability is weaker than stability, we obtain a generalization of a theorem due to Miyaoka [20] and Palmer [21]. Research partially Supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. The author’s research was supported by grant Proj. No. KRF-2007-313-C00058 from Korea Research Foundation, Korea. Authors’ addresses: Qing-Ming Cheng, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan; Young Jin Suh, Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702-701, South Korea     

Constant angle surfaces in $ {\Bbb S}^2\times {\Bbb R} $

In this article we study surfaces in for which the unit normal makes a constant angle with the -direction. We give a complete classification for surfaces satisfying this simple geometric condition.     

Ruled Real Hypersurfaces in a Nonflat Quaternionic Space Form

In this paper we construct many ruled real hypersurfaces in a nonflat quaternionic space form systematically, and in particular give an example of a homogeneous ruled real hypersurface in a quaternionic hyperbolic space. In the second half of this paper we characterize them by investigating the extrinsic shape of their geodesics. We also characterize curvature-adapted real hypersurfaces in nonflat quaternionic space forms from the same viewpoint.The first author was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 14540075), Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.The second author was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 14540080), Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.     

Complete minimal hypersurfaces in complex hyperbolic space

We construct new examples of embedded, complete, minimal hypersurfaces in complex hyperbolic space, including deformations of bisectors and some minimal foliations. Received: 20 March 2000 / Revised version: 21 July 2000     

Rigidity of Clifford Minimal Hypersurfaces

In this paper, we prove some rigidity theorems for Clifford minimal hypersurfaces in a unit sphere.Received March 18, 2002; in revised form December 25, 2002 Published online October 15, 2003     

Geodesics on real hypersurfaces of type A 2 in a complex space form

In this paper, we study geodesics with null structure torsions on real hypersurfaces of type A ₂ in a complex space form. These geodesics give a nice family of helices of order 3 generated by Killing vector fields on the ambient complex space form. Author’s address: Toshiaki Adachi, Department of Mathematics, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan     

Warped products of Hadamard spaces

In the Riemannian case, our approach to warped products illuminates curvature formulas that previously seemed formal and somewhat mysterious. Moreover, the geometric approach allows us to study warped products in a much more general class of spaces. For complete metric spaces, it is known that nonpositive curvature in the Alexandrov sense is preserved by gluing on isometric closed convex subsets and by Gromov–Hausdorff limits with strictly positive convexity radius; we show it is also preserved by warped products with convex warping functions. Received: 9 January 1998/ Revised version: 12 March 1998     

Spherical submanifolds in a Euclidean space

In this paper, we are interested in extending the study of spherical curves in R ³ to the submanifolds in the Euclidean space R ^n+p . More precisely, we are interested in obtaining conditions under which an n-dimensional compact submanifold M of a Euclidean space R ^n+p lies on the hypersphere S ^n+p−1(c) (standardly imbedded sphere in R ^n+p of constant curvature c). As a by-product we also get an estimate on the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator Δ of the submanifold (cf. Theorem 3.5) as well as a characterization for an n-dimensional sphere S ⁿ (c) (cf. Theorem 4.1).     

Some characterizations of totally umbilical surfaces in three-dimensional warped product spaces

Surfaces with positive definite second fundamental form in a Riemannian, three-dimensional warped product space are considered. A formula expressing the Gaussian curvature with respect to this new metric on the surface in terms of the Gaussian and mean curvature of the first fundamental form is presented. This formula is then used to give some characterizations of compact, totally umbilical surfaces. Postdoctoral researcher of the F.W.O. Vlaanderen.