Submanifolds of the Cayley projective plane with bounded second fundamental form

We consider totally complex submanifolds of the Cayley projective plane with estimates on the length squared of the second fundamental form. We determine those bounds for which the second fundamental form is parallel and for which the submanifold is totally geodesic. The case of totally real submanifolds is also included.     

Hypersurfaces with constant inner curvature of the second fundamental form,and the non-rigidity of the sphere

We classify the hypersurfaces of revolution in euclidean space whose second fundamental form defines an abstract pseudo-Riemannian metric of constant sectional curvature. In particular we find such piecewise analytic hypersurfaces of classC ² where the second fundamental form defines a complete space of constant positive, zero, or negative curvature. Among them there are closed convex hypersurfaces distinct from spheres, in contrast to a theorem of R. Schneider (Proc. AMS 35, 230–233, (1972)) saying that such a hypersurface of classC ⁴ has to be a round sphere. In particular, the sphere is notII-rigid in the class of all convexC ²-hypersurfaces.     

Hypersurfaces with constant inner curvature of the second fundamental form,and the non-rigidity of the sphere

We classify the hypersurfaces of revolution in euclidean space whose second fundamental form defines an abstract pseudo-Riemannian metric of constant sectional curvature. In particular we find such piecewise analytic hypersurfaces of class C ² where the second fundamental form defines a complete space of constant positive, zero, or negative curvature. Among them there are closed convex hypersurfaces distinct from spheres, in contrast to a theorem of R. Schneider (Proc. AMS 35, 230–233, (1972)) saying that such a hypersurface of class C ⁴ has to be a round sphere. In particular, the sphere is not II-rigid in the class of all convex C ² -hypersurfaces. Received 11 October 1994; in final form 26 April 1995     

共形平坦黎曼流形中具有平行第二基本形式的超曲面

In this paper, we prove the followingTheorem. Let Cⁿ⁺¹ ( n >5 ) be a conformally flat Riemannian anifola of dimension n + 1 . If Mn is a hypersurface immersed isometrically in Cⁿ⁺¹ over which the second fundamental form is covariant constant, then there are three posible cases only:I . locally Mⁿ= S^p×S^q×S^r, p+q+r=n;Ⅱ . locally Mⁿ=S^p×S^q, p + q = n , where S^k is k- dimensional Riemannian space of constant curvature;III. Mⁿ is umbilical and conformally flat. Moreover, if Mⁿ is connected and complete, then the result holds globally.     

Submanifolds with everywhere semidefinite second fundamental form

If all the second fundamental forms II(V) of a manifold Mⁿ, which is C³-immersed in R^n+N, n⩾2., N⩾1, are everywhere semidefinite and their maximal rank is nowhere less than 2, then the image of Mⁿ is contained in some (n+1)-plane. If, in addition, Mⁿ is complete in the induced metric, then the image of Mⁿ lies on the boundary of a convex body. Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova Akad. Nauk SSSR, Vol. 45, pp. 68–70, 1974. The author expresses his appreciation to Yu. D. Burago for his help in the preparation of this paper.     

The third fundamental form of minimal surfaces in a sphere

We study minimal surfaces in a sphere Sⁿ with regard to the following question: to what extent minimal surfaces in Sⁿ are determined by restrictions on the Gaussian curvature of the Gaussian image in the sense of Obata?     

On the inner curvature of the second fundamental form of helicoidal surfaces

Let M be a helicoidal surface in E ³, free of points of vanishing Gaussian curvature. Let H be the mean curvature and K _II the curvature of the second fundamental form. In this note it is shown that the helicoidal surfaces satisfying K _II =H are locally characterized by constancy of the ratio of the principal curvatures. Moreover it is proved that these helicoidal surfaces are determined by a first order differential equation. Research supported by E.E.C. contract CHRX-CT92-0050.     

Tits topology and fundamental groups of compact Riemannian manifolds

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold without conjugate points. We generalize the Tits topology on the ideal boundary of the universal covering space of M. Then we show that if π₁(M) is amenable and is compact with respect to the Tits topology, then M is flat. This work was supported by Grant No.R01-2006-000-10047-0(2006) from the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation.     

On minimal two-spheres immersed in complex Grassmann manifolds with parallel second fundamental form

In this paper, we study some properties of the linearly full conformal minimal immersions φ : S ² → G(k, n) with second fundamental form B. At first we compute the Laplacian of square length ||B||² of B and the relations of Gaussian curvature K and normal curvature K ^N . Then we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition of the parallel second fundamental form, and prove that K must be constant if B is parallel. Moreover, if it is not totally geodesic, K ≤?||B||²/2, especially, K =?||B||²/2 when it is holomorphic. We also consider the pseudo-holomorphic curve in G(k, n) with parallel second fundamental form and compute its Gaussian curvature and K?hler angle.     

Minimal surfaces in symmetric spaces with parallel second fundamental form

In this paper, we study geometry of isometric minimal immersions of Riemannian surfaces in a symmetric space by moving frames and prove that the Gaussian curvature must be constant if the immersion is of parallel second fundamental form. In particular, when the surface is \(S^2\), we discuss the special case and obtain a necessary and sufficient condition such that its second fundamental form is parallel. We also consider isometric minimal two-spheres immersed in complex two-dimensional Kähler symmetric spaces with parallel second fundamental form, and prove that the immersion is totally geodesic with constant Kähler angle if it is neither holomorphic nor anti-holomorphic with Kähler angle \(\alpha \ne 0\) (resp. \(\alpha \ne \pi \)) everywhere on \(S^2\).     

A sharp form of Nevanlinna's second fundamental theorem

Letf be meromorphic in the plane. We find a sharp upper bound for the error term

On fundamental groups of compact Hausdorff spaces

We discuss which groups can be realized as the fundamental groups of compact Hausdorff spaces. In particular, we prove that the claim ``every group can be realized as the fundamental group of a compact Hausdorff space' is consistent with the Zermelo-Fraenkel-Choice set theory.

     

A homogeneous submanifold with nonzero parallel mean curvature vector in a Euclidean sphere

We show that every sufficiently high dimensional Euclidean sphere admits an odd dimensional Riemannian submanifold M having the properties: (1) M is a homogeneous submanifold with nonzero parallel mean curvature vector in the ambient sphere; (2) M is a Berger sphere; (3) M is a Sasakian space form of constant ${\phi}$ -sectional curvature. Note that our manifold M is diffeomorphic but not isometric to a Euclidean sphere.