On a class of twistorial maps

We show that a natural class of twistorial maps gives a pattern for apparently different geometric maps, such as, (1,1)-geodesic immersions from (1,2)-symplectic almost Hermitian manifolds and pseudo horizontally conformal submersions with totally geodesic fibres for which the associated almost CR-structure is integrable. Along the way, we construct for each constant curvature Riemannian manifold (M,g), of dimension m, a family of twistor spaces such that Zr(M) parametrizes naturally the set of pairs (P,J), where P is a totally geodesic submanifold of (M,g), of codimension 2r, and J is an orthogonal complex structure on the normal bundle of P which is parallel with respect to the normal connection.     

On the Geometry of Lagrangian Submanifolds

We prove that a Lagrangian submanifold passes through each point of a symplectic manifold in the direction of arbitrary Lagrangian plane at this point. Generally speaking, such a Lagrangian submanifold is not unique; nevertheless, the set of all such submanifolds in Hermitian extension of a symplectic manifold of dimension greater than 4 for arbitrary initial data contains a totally geodesic submanifold (which we call the s-Lagrangian submanifold) iff this symplectic manifold is a complex space form. We show that each Lagrangian submanifold in a complex space form of holomorphic sectional curvature equal to c is a space of constant curvature c/4. We apply these results to the geometry of principal toroidal bundles.     

A note on invariant submanifolds of (<Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">μ</Emphasis>)-contact manifolds

The object of the present paper is to study invariant submanifolds of a (k, μ)-contact manifold and to find the necessary and sufficient conditions for an invariant submanifold of a (k, μ)-contact manifold to be totally geodesic.     

Minimal Homogeneous Submanifolds in Euclidean Spaces

We prove that minimal (extrinsically) homogeneous submanifolds of the Euclidean space are totally geodesic. As an application, we obtain that a complex homogeneous submanifold of C ^N must be totally geodesic.     

Submanifolds with totally umbilical Gauss image

The submanifolds whose Gauss images are totally umbilical submanifolds of the Grassmann manifold are under consideration. The main result is the following classification theorem: if the Gauss image of a submanifold F in a Euclidean space is totally umbilical then either the Gauss image is totally geodesic, or F is the surface in E ⁴ of the special structure. Submanifolds in a Euclidean space with totally geodesic Gauss image were classified earlier.     

Totally geodesic submanifolds in Lie groups

Summary We study minimal and totally geodesic submanifolds in Lie groups and related problems. We show that: (1) The imbedding of the Grassmann manifold G_F(n,N) in the Lie group G_F(N) defined naturally makes G_F(n,N) a totally geodesic submanifold; (2) The imbedding S⁷→SO(8) defined by octonians makes S⁷a totally geodesic submanifold inSO(8); (3) The natural inclusion of the Lie group G_F(N) in the sphere S^{cN^2-1}(√N) of gl(N,F)is minimal. Therefore the natural imbedding G_F(N)<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>→gl(N,F)is formed by the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on G_F(N).     

On vertical skew symmetric almost contact 3-structures

We consider a (2m + 3)-dimensional Riemannian manifold M(ξ _r, η^r, g ) endowed with a vertical skew symmetric almost contact 3-structure. Such manifold is foliated by 3-dimensional submanifolds of constant curvature tangent to the vertical distribution and the square of the length of the vertical structure vector field is an isoparametric function. If, in addition, M(ξ _r, η^r, g ) is endowed with an f -structure φ, M, turns out to be a framed f−CR-manifold. The fundamental 2-form Ω associated with φ is a presymplectic form. Locally, M is the Riemannian product of two totally geodesic submanifolds, where is a 2m-dimensional Kaehlerian submanifold and is a 3-dimensional submanifold of constant curvature. If M is not compact, a class of local Hamiltonians of Ω is obtained.     

Scalar curvature of a certain CR-submanifold of complex projective space

We study an n-dimensional, compact, minimal CR-submanifold of CR-dimension n − 1 and give a sufficient condition for the submanifold to be a tube over a totally geodesic complex subspace. Dedicated to Professor U-Hang Ki on his 60th birthday This work is supported by the research grant of the Catholic University of Taegu-Hyosung in 1996.     

Av-operator on complete foliated Riemannian manifolds

We give a generalization of the result obtained by C. Currás-Bosch. We consider the Av-operator associated to a transverse Killing fieldν on a complete foliated Riemannian manifold (M, ℱ, g). Under a certain assumption, we prove that, for eachx ∈M, (Av) _x belongs to the Lie algebra of the linear holonomy group ψv(x). A special case of our result, the version of the foliation by points, implies the results given by B. Kostant (compact case) and C. Currás-Bosch (non-compact case).     

Screen conformal lightlike submanifolds of semi-Riemannian manifolds

Since the induced objects on a lightlike submanifold depend on its screen distribution which, in general, is not unique and hence we can not use the classical submanifold theory on a lightlike submanifold in the usual way. Therefore, in present paper, we study screen conformal lightlike submanifolds of a semi-Riemannian manifold, which are essential for the existence of unique screen distribution. We obtain a characterization theorem for the existence of screen conformal lightlike submanifolds of a semi-Riemannian manifold. We prove that if the differential operator D^s is a metric Otsuki connection on transversal lightlike bundle for a screen conformal lightlike submanifold then semi-Riemannian manifold is a semi-Euclidean space. We also obtain some characterization theorems for a screen conformal totally umbilical lightlike submanifold of a semi-Riemannian space form. Further, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a screen conformal lightlike submanifold of constant curvature to be a semi-Euclidean space. Finally, we prove that for an irrotational screen conformal lightlike submanifold of a semi-Riemannian space form, the induced Ricci tensor is symmetric and the null sectional curvature vanishes.     

The geodetic numbers of graphs and digraphs

For every two vertices u and v in a graph G,a u-v geodesic is a shortest path between u and v.Let I(u,v)denote the set of all vertices lying on a u-v geodesic.For a vertex subset S,let I(S) denote the union of all I(u,v)for u,v∈S.The geodetic number g(G)of a graph G is the minimum cardinality of a set S with I(S)=V(G).For a digraph D,there is analogous terminology for the geodetic number g(D).The geodetic spectrum of a graph G,denoted by S(G),is the set of geodetic numbers of all orientations of graph G.The lower geodetic number is g~-(G)=minS(G)and the upper geodetic number is g~ (G)=maxS(G).The main purpose of this paper is to study the relations among g(G),g~-(G)and g~ (G)for connected graphs G.In addition,a sufficient and necessary condition for the equality of g(G)and g(G×K_2)is presented,which improves a result of Chartrand,Harary and Zhang.     

On Invariant Submanifolds of C- and S-Manifolds

We characterize totally geodesic invariant submanifolds of C- and S-manifolds. We prove that the second fundamental form is parallel if and only if the submanifold of an S-manifold is totally geodesic. We show that this is not true for the C-manifolds. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Conformal vector fields on Kaehler manifolds

It is known that a conformal vector field on a compact Kaehler manifold is a Killing vector field. In this paper, we are interested in finding conditions under which a conformal vector field on a non-compact Kaehler manifold is Killing. First we prove that a harmonic analytic conformal vector field on a 2n-dimensional Kaehler manifold (n ≠ 2) of constant nonzero scalar curvature is Killing. It is also shown that on a 2n-dimensional Kaehler Einstein manifold (n > 1) an analytic conformal vector field is either Killing or else the Kaehler manifold is Ricci flat. In particular, it follows that on non-flat Kaehler Einstein manifolds of dimension greater than two, analytic conformal vector fields are Killing.     

Conormal bundles with vanishing Maslov form

IfM is a Riemannian manifold, andL is a Lagrangian submanifold ofT ^* M, the Maslov class ofL has a canonical representative 1-form which we call theMaslov form ofL. We prove that ifL =v ^* N = conormal bundle of a submanifoldN ofM, its Maslov form vanishes iffN is a minimal submanifold. Particularly, ifM is locally flatv ^* N is a minimal Lagrangian submanifold ofT ^* M iffN is a minimal submanifold ofM. This strengthens a result of Harvey and Lawson [H L].     

Submanifolds Of Maximal Nullity In Symmetric Spaces

A non-totally-geodesic submanifold of relative nullity n — 1 in a symmetric space M is a cylinder over one of the following submanifolds: a surface F ² of nullity 1 in a totally geodesic submanifold N³ ? M locally isometric to S ²(c) × ? or H ²(c) × ?; a submanifold F ^k+1 spanned by a totally geodesic submanifold F ^k(c) of constant curvature moving by a special curve in the isometry group of M; a submanifold F ^k+l of nullity k in a flat totally geodesic submanifold of M; a curve.     

A note on hypersurfaces in a sphere

We study the influence of a unit Killing vector field on the geometry of a hypersurface in the unit sphere. The combination of the Killing vector field on the hypersurface and the conformal vector field on the ambient sphere triggers the presence of four specific smooth functions on the hypersurface, we use these four functions to derive different sufficient conditions for a hypersurface to be the totally geodesic sphere and for a minimal hypersurface to be the totally geodesic sphere, Clifford minimal hypersurface respectively. In particular we classify compact minimal hypersurfaces with a unit Killing vector field in the unit sphere.     

Automorphisms and a reduction theorem in a Sasakian space form E2m+1(−3)

Summary We construct definitely the automorphism group of a Sasakian space form ¯M=E ^2m+1 (–3) and study the existence of a totally geodesic invariant submanifold of ¯M tangent to a given invariant subspace in the tangent space of ¯M. We also study the Frenet curves in ¯M under a totally contact geodesic immersion of a contact CR-submanifold into ¯M. The purpose of this paper is to prove a reduction theorem of the codimension for a totally contact geodesic, contact CR-submanifold of ¯M.     

On compact submanifolds of nonpositive external curvature in Riemannian spaces

In this paper we consider compact multidimensional surfaces of nonpositive external curvature in a Riemannian space. If the curvature of the underlying space is ≥ 1 and the curvature of the surface is ≤ 1, then in small codimension the surface is a totally geodesic submanifold that is locally isometric to the sphere. Under stricter restrictions on the curvature of the underlying space, the submanifold is globally isometric to the unit sphere. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 3–10, July, 1996.     

Isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds in the homogeneous nearly Kähler S<Superscript>3</Superscript> × S<Superscript>3</Superscript>

We show that isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds in a 6-dimensional strict nearly Kähler manifold are totally geodesic. Moreover, under some weaker conditions, a complete classification of the J-isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds in the homogeneous nearly Kähler S³ × S³ is also obtained. Here, a Lagrangian submanifold is called J-isotropic, if there exists a function λ, such that g((?h)(v, v, v), Jv) = λ holds for all unit tangent vector v.     

Submanifolds with restrictions on extrinsic <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>th scalar curvature

We study the structure of the minimum set of the normal curvature for a symmetric bilinear map on Euclidean or Hilbert space, the conditions when this set contains strongly umbilical, conformal nullity, etc. linear subspaces. The main goals are estimates from above of the codimension of these subspaces for a symmetric bilinear map with positive normal curvature and the inequality type restriction on the extrinsic qth scalar curvature. We estimate from above the codimension of asymptotic and relative nullity subspaces for a symmetric bilinear map with nonpositive extrinsic qth scalar curvature. Applying the algebraic results to the second fundamental form of a submanifold with low codimension, we characterize the totally umbilical and totally geodesic submanifolds, prove local nonembedding theorems for the products of Riemannian manifolds and global extremal theorem for the space of positive curvature. On the way we generalize results by Florit (1994), Borisenko (1977, 1987) and Okrut (1991) about Riemannian and Hilbert submanifolds. The research was supported by the Center for Absorption in Science, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, State of Israel; and by Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation, University of Haifa.