Parallel Kähler submanifolds of quaternionic Kähler symmetric spaces (Q2495297): Difference between revisions

Let \((\tilde M,\tilde g,Q)\) be a \(4n\)-dimensional quaternionic Kähler manifold with metric \(\tilde g\) and parallel quaternionic structure \(Q\). An even-dimensional submanifold \(M\) of \(\tilde M\), together with a section \(J\) of the induced bundle of \(Q\) into \(M\) such that \(J^2=-1\) and \(JTM=TM\), is called Kähler if \(J\) is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of \(\tilde g\). In the present paper the authors study parallel Kähler submanifolds in a quaternionic Kähler symmetric space of nonzero scalar curvature, i.e., in a Wolf space or its noncompact dual. They get a complete classification of the nontotally geodesic ones. The crucial point for the classification is to show that if the shape tensor \(C\) of a geodesically complete parallel Kähler submanifold \(M\) of \(\tilde M\) vanishes at one point, then the minimal totally geodesic submanifold \(\overline M\) of \(\tilde M\) containing \(M\) is an Hermitian symmetric space. Moreover, if \(C \neq 0\), then \(\overline M \) is the quaternionic projective space \(\mathbb H P^{m}\) and \((M, J)\) is a Hermitian symmetric manifold with parallel cubic line bundle. The classification of all parallel Kähler submanifolds in a Hermitian symmetric space was given by \textit{K. Tsukada} in [Math. Z. 190, No.1, 129--150 (1985; Zbl 0568.53031)].