EQUIFOCAL HYPERSURFACES IN SYMMETRIC SPACES EQUIFOCAL HYPERSURFACES IN SYMMETRIC SPACES

1. IntroductionBy [111, a hypersurface in a symmetric space is called equifocal if every normal geodesicperpendiculajr to it is closed of constant length, say l, and contains Zg focal points for somepositive integer g. This is a natural generalization of isoparametric hypersurfaces in sphereswhere the illteger g is the number of distinct principal curvatures. In this note we considerequifocal hypersurfaces in simply connected rank one symmetric spaces, i.e. the complexprojective space CP", th…     

Finiteness results for equifocal hypersurfaces in compact symmetric spaces

We prove that there are only finitely many diffeomorphism types of curvature-adapted equifocal hypersurfaces in a simply connected compact symmetric space. Moreover, if the symmetric space is of rank one, the result can be strengthened by dropping the condition curvature-adapted.     

A splitting theorem for equifocal submanifolds in simply connected compact symmetric spaces

A submanifold in a symmetric space is called equifocal if it has a globally flat abelian normal bundle and its focal data is invariant under normal parallel transportation. This is a generalization of the notion of isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces. To each equifocal submanifold, we can associate a Coxeter group, which is determined by the focal data at one point. In this paper we prove that an equifocal submanifold in a simply connected compact symmetric space is a non-trivial product of two such submanifolds if and only if its associated Coxeter group is decomposable. As a consequence, we get a similar splitting result for hyperpolar group actions on compact symmetric spaces. These results are an application of a splitting theorem for isoparametric submanifolds in Hilbert spaces by Heintze and Liu.

     

Integrable Riemannian Submersion with Singularities

A map of a Riemannian manifold into an euclidian space is said to be transnormal if its restrictions to neighbourhoods of regular level sets are integrable Riemannian submersions. Analytic transnormal maps can be used to describe isoparametric submanifolds in spaces of constant curvature and equifocal submanifolds with flat sections in simply connected symmetric spaces. These submanifolds are also regular leaves of singular Riemannian foliations with sections. We prove that regular level sets of an analytic transnormal map on a real analytic complete Riemannian manifold are equifocal submanifolds and leaves of a singular Riemannian foliation with sections.     

Totally geodesic hypersurfaces of four-dimensional generalized symmetric spaces

We prove that a four-dimensional generalized symmetric space does not admit any non-degenerate hypersurfaces with parallel second fundamental form, in particular non-degenerate totally geodesic hypersurfaces, unless it is locally symmetric. However, spaces which are known as generalized symmetric spaces of type C do admit non-degenerate parallel hypersurfaces and we verify that they are indeed symmetric. We also give a complete and explicit classification of all non-degenerate totally geodesic hypersurfaces of spaces of this type.     

Weak convergence of Dirichlet processes

Weak convergence of Markov processes is studied by means of Dirichlet forms and two theorems for weak convergence of Hunt processes on general metric spaces are established. As applications, examples for weak conver gence of symmetric or non-symmetric Dirichlet processes on finite and infinite spaces are given. Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Tianyuan Mathematics Foundation.     

Obstructions to embeddability into hyperquadrics and explicit examples

We give series of explicit examples of Levi-nondegenerate real-analytic hypersurfaces in complex spaces that are not transversally holomorphically embeddable into hyperquadrics of any dimension. For this, we construct invariants attached to a given hypersurface that serve as obstructions to embeddability. We further study the embeddability problem for real-analytic submanifolds of higher codimension and answer a question by Forstnerič. The author was supported in part by the RCBS grant of Trinity College Dublin and by the Science Foundation Ireland.     

Einstein hypersurfaces of the Cayley projective plane

We prove that the Cayley hyperbolic plane admits no Einstein hypersurfaces and that the only Einstein hypersurfaces in the Cayley projective plane are geodesic spheres of a certain radius; this completes the classification of Einstein hypersurfaces in rank-one symmetric spaces.     

The Exceptional Compact Symmetric Spaces <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript>/<Emphasis Type="Italic">SO</Emphasis>(4) as Tubes

In the present paper we discuss in detail the cohomogeneity one isometric actions of the Lie groups SU(3) × SU(3) and SU(3) on the exceptional compact symmetric spaces G₂ and G₂/SO(4), respectively. We show that the principal orbits coincide with the tubular hypersurfaces around the totally geodesic singular orbits, and the symmetric spaces G₂ and G₂/SO(4) can be thought of as compact tubes around SU(3) and P², respectively. Moreover, we determine the radii of these tubes and describe the shape operators of the principal orbits. Finally, we apply these results to compute the volumes of the two symmetric spaces.The author was partially supported by the Hungarian National Science and Research Foundation OTKA T032478.     

Biharmonic homogeneous hypersurfaces in compact symmetric spaces

In this paper, we study biharmonic hypersurfaces in Einstein manifolds. Then, we determine all the biharmonic hypersurfaces in irreducible symmetric spaces of compact type which are regular orbits of commutative Hermann actions of cohomogeneity one.     

Spectral asymptotics of hypersurfaces

Pseudodifferential operator techniques are employed to obtain higher-order spectral asymptotic results for integral operators on hypersurfaces in Euclidean space.Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.     

局部对称空间中具有常数量曲率的超曲面

利用自伴算子研究局部对称空间中具有常数量曲率的紧致超曲面,得到了这类超曲面中的某些刚性定理,推广了已有的结果.     

The Brake Orbits of Hamiltonian Systems on Positive-type Hypersurfaces

This paper deals with the brake orbits of Hamiltonian system on given energy hypersurfaces Σ = H ⁻¹(1). We introduce a class of contact type but not necessarily star-shaped hypersurfaces in ℝ²ⁿ and call them normalized positive-type hypersurfaces. By using of the critical point theory, we prove that if Σ is a partially symmetric normalized positive-type hypersurface, it must carries a brake orbit of (HS). Furthermore, we obtain some multiplicity results under certain pinching conditions. Our results include the earlier works on this subject given by P. Rabinowitz and A. Szulkin in star-shaped case. An example of partially symmetric normalized positive-type hypersurface in ℝ⁴ that is not star-shaped is also presented Partially supported by NNSF of China (10571085) and Science Foundation of Hohai University.     

Closed Characteristics on Asymmetric Convex Hypersurfaces in R2n and the Corresponding Pinching Conditions

Abstract In this paper, we construct first a new concrete example of asymmetric convex compact C ^1,1-hypersurfaces in R ²ⁿ possessing precisely n closed characteristics. Then we prove multiplicity results on the closed characteristics on convex compact hypersurfaces in R ²ⁿ pinched by not necessarily symmetric convex compact hypersurfaces. *Partially supported by the 973 Program of STM, Funds of EC of Jiangsu, the Natural Science Funds of Jiangsu (BK 2002023), the Post-doctorate Funds of China, and the NNSF of China (10251001) **Partially supported by the 973 Program of STM, NNSF, MCME, RFDP, PMC Key Lab of EM of China, S. S. Chern Foundation, and Nankai University     

A classification of hyperpolar and cohomogeneity one actions

An isometric action of a compact Lie group on a Riemannian manifold is called hyperpolar if there exists a closed, connected submanifold that is flat in the induced metric and meets all orbits orthogonally. In this article, a classification of hyperpolar actions on the irreducible Riemannian symmetric spaces of compact type is given. Since on these symmetric spaces actions of cohomogeneity one are hyperpolar, i.e. normal geodesics are closed, we obtain a classification of the homogeneous hypersurfaces in these spaces by computing the cohomogeneity for all hyperpolar actions. This result implies a classification of the cohomogeneity one actions on compact strongly isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces.

     

The Inverse Mean Curvature Flow in Rotationally Symmetric Spaces

In this paper, the motion of inverse mean curvature flow which starts from a closed star-sharped hypersurface in special rotationally symmetric spaces is studied. It is proved that the flow converges to a unique geodesic sphere, i.e., every principle curvature of the hypersurfaces converges to a same constant under the flow.     

On the isometric minimal immersion into a euclidean space

We study the volume growth of the geodesic balls of a minimal submanifold in a Euclidean space. A necessary condition for the isometric minimal immersion into a Euclidean space is obtained. A classification of non-positively curved minimal hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space is given. This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China     

Weakly symmetric spaces and spherical varieties

Weakly symmetric homogeneous spaces were introduced by A. Selberg in 1956. We prove that, for a real reductive algebraic group, they can be characterized as the spaces of real points of affine spherical homogeneous varieties of the complexified group. As an application, under the same assumption on the transitive group, we show that weakly symmetric spaces are precisely the homogeneous Riemannian manifolds with commutative algebra of invariant differential operators.Supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant No. 95-01-01263.Supported by the U. S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, Award No. 206, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant No. 98-01-00598, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.     

Integral formulas for closed spacelike hypersurfaces in anti-de Sitter space <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Stack><Subscript>1</Subscript><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>+1</Superscript></Stack> (−1)

In this paper, we study closed k-maximal spacelike hypersurfaces M ⁿ in anti-de Sitter space H ₁ ⁿ⁺¹ (−1) with two distinct principal curvatures and give some integral formulas about these hypersurfaces. The first author was supported by Japan Society for Promotion of Science. The third author was supported by grant Proj. No. R17-2008-001-01000-0 from Korea Science & Engineering Foundation.