Parallel and totally geodesic hypersurfaces of 5-dimensional 2-step homogeneous nilmanifolds

In this paper we study parallel and totally geodesic hypersurfaces of two-step homogeneous nilmanifolds of dimension five. We give the complete classification and explicitly describe parallel and totally geodesic hypersurfaces of these spaces. Moreover, we prove that two-step homogeneous nilmanifolds of dimension five which have one-dimensional centre never admit parallel hypersurfaces. Also we prove that the only two-step homogeneous nilmanifolds of dimension five which admit totally geodesic hypersurfaces have three-dimensional centre.     

Symmetries of Null Geometry in Indefinite Kenmotsu Manifolds

Null hypersurfaces have metrics with vanishing determinants and this degeneracy of these metrics leads to several difficulties. In this paper, null hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu space forms, tangent to the structure vector field, are studied with specific attention to locally symmetric, semi-symmetric and Ricci semi-symmetric null hypersurfaces. We show that locally symmetric and semi-symmetric null hypersurfaces are totally geodesic and parallel. These also hold for Ricci semi-symmetric null hypersurfaces, under a certain condition. We prove that, in null Einstein hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kenmotsu space form, tangent to the structure vector field, the local symmetry, semisymmetry and Ricci semi-symmetry notions are equivalent. For totally contact umbilical null hypersurfaces, we show that there are η-“Weyl” connections adapted to the induced structure on the null hypersurface.     

Symmetric subvarieties in compactifications and the Radon transform on Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type

We investigate the totally geodesic Radon transform which assigns a function to its integration over totally geodesic symmetric submanifolds in Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type. Our main concern is focused on the injectivity and support theorem. Our approach is based on the projection slice theorem relating the totally geodesic Radon transform and the Fourier transforms on symmetric spaces. Our approach also uses the study of geometry concerned with the totally geodesic symmetric subvarieties in Riemannian symmetric spaces in terms of the cell structure of the Satake compactifications.     

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.     

Real Hypersurfaces in Quaternionic Space Forms Satyisfying Axioms of Planes

A Riemannian manifold satisfies the axiom of 2-planes if at each point, there are suficiently many totally geodesic surfaces passing through that point. Real hypersurfaces in quaternionic space forms admit nice families of tangent planes, namely, totally real, half-quaternionic and quaternionic. Several definitions of axiom of planes arise naturally when we consider such families of tangent planes. We are able to classify real hypersurfaces in quaternionic space forms satisfying these definitions.     

Equivariant embeddings of Hermitian symmetric spaces

We prove that equivariant, holomorphic embeddings of Hermitian symmetric spaces are totally geodesic (when the image is not of exceptional type).     

On the Mean Exit Time for Compact Symmetric Spaces

Given a compact symmetric space, M, we obtain the mean exit time function from a principal orbit, for a Brownian particle starting and moving in a generalized ball whose boundary is the principal orbit. We also obtain the mean exit time flmction of a tube of radius r around special totally geodesic submanifolds P of M. Finally we give a comparison result for the mean exit time function of tubes around submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds, using these totally geodesic submanifolds in compact symmetric spaces as a model.     

Parabolic subgroups of semisimple Lie groups and Einstein solvmanifolds

In this paper, we study the solvmanifolds constructed from any parabolic subalgebras of any semisimple Lie algebras. These solvmanifolds are naturally homogeneous submanifolds of symmetric spaces of noncompact type. We show that the Ricci curvatures of our solvmanifolds coincide with the restrictions of the Ricci curvatures of the ambient symmetric spaces. Consequently, all of our solvmanifolds are Einstein, which provide a large number of new examples of noncompact homogeneous Einstein manifolds. We also show that our solvmanifolds are minimal, but not totally geodesic submanifolds of symmetric spaces.     

Parallel and totally geodesic hypersurfaces of non-reductive homogeneous four-manifolds

We classify totally geodesic and parallel hypersurfaces of four-dimensional non-reductive homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.     

Totally umbilic null hypersurfaces in generalized Robertson–Walker spaces

We show that there is a correspondence between totally umbilic null hypersurfaces in generalized Robertson–Walker spaces and twisted decompositions of the fibre. This allows us to prove that nullcones are the unique totally umbilic null hypersurfaces in the closed Friedmann Cosmological model. We also apply this kind of ideas to static spaces, in particular to Reissner–Nordström and Schwarzschild exterior spacetimes.     

Totally geodesic submanifolds of maximal rank in symmetric spaces

We gave a complete list of totally geodesic submanifolds of maximal rank in symmetric spaces of noncompact type. The compact cases can be obtained by the duality.     

What is wrong with the Hausdorff measure in Finsler spaces

We construct a class of Finsler metrics in three-dimensional space such that all their geodesics are lines, but not all planes are extremal for their Hausdorff area functionals. This shows that if the Hausdorff measure is used as notion of volume on Finsler spaces, then totally geodesic submanifolds are not necessarily minimal, filling results such as those of Ivanov [On two-dimensional minimal fillings, St. Petersburg Math. J. 13 (2002) 17-25] do not hold, and integral-geometric formulas do not exist. On the other hand, using the Holmes-Thompson definition of volume, we prove a general Crofton formula for Finsler spaces and give an easy proof that their totally geodesic hypersurfaces are minimal.     

Totally Geodesic and Parallel Hypersurfaces of Four-Dimensional Oscillator Groups

We obtain the complete classification and explicitly describe totally geodesic and parallel hypersurfaces of four-dimensional oscillator groups, equipped with a one-parameter family of left-invariant Lorentzian metrics.     

Lightlike Hypersurfaces in Indefinite Trans-Sasakian Manifolds

This paper deals with lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite trans-Sasakian manifolds of type (α, β), tangent to the structure vector field. Characterization Theorems on parallel vector fields, integrable distributions, minimal distributions, Ricci-semi symmetric, geodesibility of lightlike hypersurfaces are obtained. The geometric configuration of lightlike hypersurfaces is established. We prove, under some conditions, that there are no parallel and totally contact umbilical lightlike hypersurfaces of trans-Sasakian space forms, tangent to the structure vector field. We show that there exists a totally umbilical distribution in an Einstein parallel lightlike hypersurface which does not contain the structure vector field. We characterize the normal bundle along any totally contact umbilical leaf of an integrable screen distribution. We finally prove that the geometry of any leaf of an integrable distribution is closely related to the geometry of a normal bundle and its image under ${\overline{\phi}}$ .     

Metric foliations and curvature

We prove a rigidity theorem for Riemannian fibrations of flat spaces over compact bases and give a metric classification of compact four-dimensional manifolds of nonnegative curvature that admit totally geodesic Riemannian foliations.     

New geometric examples of Anosov actions

We study a new class of Anosov actions (in the sense of Hirsch, Pugh and Shub) of reductive Lie groups, which are related to Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-compact type. The orbits of these actions can be identified with unions of parallel geodesics and the resulting orbit spaces are symplectic manifolds. For symmetric spaces of rank 1 all actions coincide with the geodesic flow.     

Injectivity radius and diameter of the manifolds of flags in the projective planes

The manifolds of flags in the projective planes are among the very few compact manifolds that are known to admit metrics with positive sectional curvature. They also arise as isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. We show how their appearance in these two fields is related and study the global geodesic geometry of these spaces in detail.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):53C20, 53C30     

Totally geodesic submanifolds of the complex quadric

In this article, relations between the root space decomposition of a Riemannian symmetric space of compact type and the root space decompositions of its totally geodesic submanifolds (symmetric subspaces) are described. These relations provide an approach to the classification of totally geodesic submanifolds in Riemannian symmetric spaces; this is exemplified by the classification of the totally geodesic submanifolds in the complex quadric Qm:=SO(m+2)/(SO(2)×SO(m)) obtained in the second part of the article. The classification shows that the earlier classification of totally geodesic submanifolds of Qm by Chen and Nagano (see [B.-Y. Chen, T. Nagano, Totally geodesic submanifolds of symmetric spaces, I, Duke Math. J. 44 (1977) 745-755]) is incomplete. More specifically, two types of totally geodesic submanifolds of Qm are missing from [B.-Y. Chen, T. Nagano, Totally geodesic submanifolds of symmetric spaces, I, Duke Math. J. 44 (1977) 745-755]: The first type is constituted by manifolds isometric to CP¹×RP¹; their existence follows from the fact that Q² is (via the Segre embedding) holomorphically isometric to CP¹×CP¹. The second type consists of 2-spheres of radius which are neither complex nor totally real in Qm.     

局部对称黎曼流形中具有常中曲率完备超曲面

该文研究了局部对称黎曼流形中的具有常平均曲率完备超曲面,获得了超曲面的一个特征定理,此定理推广了一些已有的结论.