Hypersurfaces with isotropic Blaschke tensor (Q654432): Difference between revisions

For a connected smooth \(n\)-dimensional hypersurface \(x: M^n \rightarrow \mathbb S^{n+1}\) without umbilical points, there exist three basic Möbius invariants, namely the Möbius metric \(g\), the Möbius form, the Blaschke tensor \(A\). We say that \(M\) is a hypersurface with isotropic Blaschke tensor if and only if there exists a function \(\lambda\) such that \(A= \lambda g\). Note that in this case this corresponds to the classical definition of an isotropic tensor in a Riemannian manifold, following O'Neill, saying that the length of \(A(v,\dots,v)\) is independent of the unit vector \(v\). The hypersurface is called constant isotropic if \(\lambda\) is a constant function on \(M\). In this case a classification was obtained in [\textit{C. Wang}, Manuscr. Math. 96, No. 4, 517--534 (1998; Zbl 0912.53012)]. Here the authors obtain a complete classification, up to Möbius equivalence, when \(\lambda\) is non constant, provided the dimension is at least \(3\).