Euclidean submanifolds with Jacobi mean curvature vector field (Q678178): Difference between revisions

The Jacobi operator \(J\) was introduced by J. Simons and appears in the study of the second variation formula of the area function for a compact minimal submanifold \(M\) of a Riemannian manifold \(\overline M\). It is an elliptic operator acting on the normal bundle \(N(M)\) of \(M\). A cross section \(V\) of \(N(M)\) is said to be a Jacobi field if \(JV=0\). In the present paper, the authors study submanifolds in Euclidean space whose mean curvature vector field is a Jacobi field. At first the authors produce nontrivial (non-minimal) examples and then look for additional conditions which imply minimality. In my opinion the basic lemma (Lemma 1 on page 19) is not correct.