Curvature Estimates for Minimal Submanifolds of Higher Codimension

The authors derive curvature estimates for minimal submanifolds in Euclidean space for arbitrary dimension and codimension via Gauss map. Thus, Schoen-Simon-Yau＇s results and Ecker-Huisken＇s results are generalized to higher codimension. In this way, Hildebrandt-Jost-Widman＇s result for the Bernstein type theorem is improved.     

Conformal geometry of surfaces in Lorentzian space forms

We study the conformal geometry of an oriented space-like surface in three-dimensional Lorentzian space forms. After introducing the conformal compactification of the Lorentzian space forms, we define the conformal Gauss map which is a conformally invariant two parameter family of oriented spheres. We use the area of the conformal Gauss map to define the Willmore functional and derive a Bernstein type theorem for parabolic Willmore surfaces. Finally, we study the stability of maximal surfaces for the Willmore functional.Dedicated to Professor T.J. WillmoreSupported by an FPPI Postdoctoral Grant from DGICYT Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain 1994 and by a DGICYT Grant No. PB94-0750-C02-02     

复射影空间中子流形的Gauss映照

本文利用复射影空间到欧氏空间的第一标准嵌入，对于复射影空间的子流形建立了一种广义的Ｇａｕｓｓ映照，并给出了这种广义的Ｇａｕ８ｓ映照是调和映照和相对仿射映照的条件。     

WEIERSTRASS REPRESENTATION FORSURFACES WITH PRESCRIBED NORMALGAUSS MAP AND GAUSS CURVATURE IN H~3

The author obtains a Weierstrass representation for surfaces with prescribed normal Gauss map and Gauss curvature in H3. A differential equation about the hyperbolic Gauss map is also obtained, which characterizes the relation among the hyperbolic Gauss map, the normal Gauss map and Gauss curvature. The author discusses the harmonicity of the normal Gauss map and the hyperbolic Gauss map from surface with constant Gauss curvature in H3 to S2 with certain altered conformal metric. Finally, the author considers the surface whose normal Gauss map is conformal and derives a completely nonlinear differential equation of second order which graph must satisfy.     

Duality with expanding maps and shrinking maps, and its applications to Gauss maps

We study expanding maps and shrinking maps of subvarieties of Grassmann varieties in arbitrary characteristic. The shrinking map was studied independently by Landsberg and Piontkowski in order to characterize Gauss images. To develop their method, we introduce the expanding map, which is a dual notion of the shrinking map and is a generalization of the Gauss map. Then we give a characterization of separable Gauss maps and their images, which yields results for the following topics: (1) Linearity of general fibers of separable Gauss maps; (2) Generalization of the characterization of Gauss images; (3) Duality on one-dimensional parameter spaces of linear subvarieties lying in developable varieties.     

A Bernstein theorem for complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space

We obtain a gradient estimate for the Gauss maps from complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space into the hyperbolic space. As an application, we prove a Bernstein theorem which says that if the image of the Gauss map is bounded from one side, then the spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurface must be linear. This result extends the previous theorems obtained by B. Palmer [Pa] and Y.L. Xin [Xin1] where they assume that the image of the Gauss map is bounded. We also prove a Bernstein theorem for spacelike complete surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in four-dimensional spaces. Received July 4, 1997 / Accepted October 9, 1997     

Vranceanu surface in $$ \mathbb{E}^4 $$ with pointwise 1- type Gauss map

In this article we investigate Vranceanu rotation surfaces with pointwise 1- type Gauss map in Euclidean 4-space $ \mathbb{E}^4 $ \mathbb{E}^4 . We show that a Vranceanu rotation surface M has harmonic Gauss map if and only if M is a part of a plane. Further, we give necessary and sufficent conditions for Vranceanu rotation surface to have pointwise 1-type Gauss map.     

Convex functions on Grassmannian manifolds and Lawson-Osserman problem

We derive estimates of the Hessian of two smooth functions defined on Grassmannian manifold. Based on it, we can derive curvature estimates for minimal submanifolds in Euclidean space via Gauss map as in [Y.L. Xin, Ling Yang, Curvature estimates for minimal submanifolds of higher codimension, arXiv: 0709.3686; 24]. In this way, the result for Bernstein type theorem done by Jost and the first author could be improved.     

3维双曲空间中曲面的双曲Gauss映照和法Gauss映照

本文导出了3维双曲空间中曲面的双曲Gauss映照和法Gauss映照的关系,发现了一般的曲面由双曲Gauss映照和平均曲率函数唯一确定,并证明了双曲Gauss映照所满足的二阶线性椭圆方程,给出了两种形式的关于双曲Gauss映照的三阶非线性偏微分方程(组)的一个解.     

New techniques for the analysis of linear interval equations

The basic properties of interval matrix multiplication and several well-known solution algorithms for linear interval equations are abstracted by the concept of a sublinear map. The new concept, coupled with a systematic use of Ostrowski's comparison operator (in a form generalized to interval matrices), is used to derive quantitative information about the result of interval Gauss elimination andthe limit of various iterative schemes for the solution of linear interval equations. Moreover, optimality results are prove for (1) the use of the midpoint inverse as a preconditioning matrix, and (2) Gauss-Seidel iteration with componentwise intersection. This extends and improves results by Scheu, Krawczyk, and Alefeld and Herzberger.     

Bernstein type theorems for higher codimension

We show a Bernstein theorem for minimal graphs of arbitrary dimension and codimension under a bound on the slope that improves previous results and is independent of the dimension and codimension. The proof depends on the regularity theory for the harmonic Gauss map and the geometry of Grassmann manifolds. Received: September 25, 1998 / Accepted: October 23, 1998     

Pluriharmonic maps into Kähler symmetric spaces and Sym’s formula

A construction due to Sym and Bobenko recovers constant mean curvature surfaces in euclidean 3-space from their harmonic Gauss maps. We generalize this construction to higher dimensions and codimensions replacing the surface by a complex manifold and the sphere (the target space of the Gauss map) by a Kähler symmetric space of compact type with its standard embedding into the Lie algebra ${\mathfrak{g}}A construction due to Sym and Bobenko recovers constant mean curvature surfaces in euclidean 3-space from their harmonic Gauss maps. We generalize this construction to higher dimensions and codimensions replacing the surface by a complex manifold and the sphere (the target space of the Gauss map) by a K?hler symmetric space of compact type with its standard embedding into the Lie algebra \mathfrakg{\mathfrak{g}} of its transvection group. Thus we obtain a new class of immersed K?hler submanifolds of \mathfrakg{\mathfrak{g}} and we derive their properties.     

3维双曲空间中给定平均曲率曲面的Weierstrass表示

首先叙述双曲空间中曲面的Ｇａｕｓｓ映照的定义;导出Ｇａｕｓｓ映照所满足的Ｂｅｌｔｒａｍｉ方程;给出了给定平均曲率曲面的Ｗｅｉｅｒｓｔｒａｓｓ表示公式;并讨论了这种表示的完全可积条件．     

Willmore子流形的共形高斯映射

本文研究球空间中子流形的共形高斯映射,用Moebius不变量刻划了该映射 为调和映射的条件.作为特例,指出球空间的2维子流形的共形高斯映射是调和映射 当且仅当该子流形是Willmore子流形.     

The Gauss map of a hypersurface in Euclidean sphere and the spherical Legendrian duality

We investigate the Gauss map of a hypersurface in Euclidean n-sphere as an application of the theory of Legendrian singularities. We can interpret the image of the Gauss map as the wavefront set of a Legendrian immersion into a certain contact manifold. We interpret the geometric meaning of the singularities of the Gauss map from this point of view.     

The Gauss map of submanifolds in the Heisenberg group

We obtain criteria for the harmonicity of the Gauss map of submanifolds in the Heisenberg group and consider the examples demonstrating the connection between the harmonicity of this map and the properties of the mean curvature field. Also, we introduce a natural class of cylindrical submanifolds and prove that a constant mean curvature hypersurface with harmonic Gauss map is cylindrical.     

The separability of the Gauss map versus the reflexivity

In projective algebraic geometry, various pathological phenomena in positive characteristic have been observed by several authors. Many of those phenomena concerning the behavior of embedded tangent spaces seem to be controlled by the separability of (the extension of function fields defined by) the Gauss map, or by the reflexivity with respect to the projective dual for a projective variety. The purpose of this paper is to survey the studies on the relationship between the separability of the Gauss map and the reflexivity for a projective variety: Is the separability of the Gauss map equivalent to the reflexivity for a projective variety?     

Higher Gauss maps of Veronese varieties—A generalization of Boole’s formula and degree bounds for higher Gauss map images

The image of the higher Gauss map for a projective variety is discussed. The notion of higher Gauss maps here was introduced by Fyodor L. Zak as a generalization of both ordinary Gauss maps and conormal maps. The main result is a closed formula for the degree of those images of Veronese varieties. This yields a generalization of a classical formula by George Boole on the degree of the dual varieties of Veronese varieties in 1844. As an application of our formula, degree bounds for higher Gauss map images of Veronese varieties are given.     

Some results on space-like self-shrinkers

We study space-like self-shrinkers of dimension n in pseudo-Euclidean space R_m^m+n with index m. We derive drift Laplacian of the basic geometric quantities and obtain their volume estimates in pseudo-distance function. Finally, we prove rigidity results under minor growth conditions in terms of the mean curvature or the image of Gauss maps.     

Gauss maps of the Ricci-mean curvature flow

In this paper, we investigate the Gauss maps of a Ricci-mean curvature flow. A Ricci-mean curvature flow is a coupled equation of a mean curvature flow and a Ricci flow on the ambient manifold. Ruh and Vilms (Trans Am Math Soc 149: 569–573, 1970) proved that the Gauss map of a minimal submanifold in a Euclidean space is a harmonic map, and Wang (Math Res Lett 10(2–3):287–299, 2003) extended this result to a mean curvature flow in a Euclidean space by proving its Gauss maps satisfy the harmonic map heat flow equation. In this paper, we deduce the evolution equation for the Gauss maps of a Ricci-mean curvature flow, and as a direct corollary we prove that the Gauss maps of a Ricci-mean curvature flow satisfy the vertically harmonic map heat flow equation when the codimension of submanifolds is 1.