Einstein, conformally flat and semi-symmetric submanifolds satisfying Chen's equality (Q1366946): Difference between revisions

\textit{B.-Y. Chen} [Arch. Math. 60, 568-578 (1993; Zbl 0811.53060)] introduced a new invariant on a differentiable manifold \(M^n\) as follows. Denote by \(\tau= \sum^n_{i\neq j}K(e_i\wedge e_j)\) the scalar curvature and let \(\inf K(p)= \inf\{K(\pi)\mid\pi\) a plane section of \(T_pM\}\). Then \[ \delta_M(P)= \textstyle{{1\over 2}} \tau(p)- \inf K(p). \] The invariant \(\delta_M\) is intrinsic. For submanifolds of real space forms, we have \[ \delta_M(p)\leq {n^2(n- 2)\over(n- 1)} | H|^2+ {1\over 2} (n+ 1)(n- 2)c, \] where \(| H|\) is the length of the mean curvature vector. Since then, similar inequalities have been discovered for various submanifolds of complex space forms and the submanifolds realizing at every point the equality have been investigated by several people. Submanifolds satisfying at every point the equality in the above inequality are called submanifolds satisfying Chen's equality. In the present paper, the authors classify the submanifolds \(M^n\) of \(\mathbb{E}^m\) which satisfy Chen's equality and which are Einstein, conformally flat, or semi-symmetric.