Submanifolds with harmonic curvature (Q1821366)

A Riemannian curvature is said to be harmonic if the Ricci tensor S satisfies the so-called Codazzi equation \(\delta S=0\). In the present paper, the authors study submanifolds with harmonic curvature in a Riemannian manifold of constant curvature. Some of the main results can be stated as follows: Let M be a compact simply connected Riemannian manifold with harmonic curvature and \(\phi\) the isometric immersion of M into \(R^{n+p}\). If the mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle, then M is a product of Riemannian manifolds \(M_ 1\times...\times M_ k\) and \(\phi\) is a product of minimal immersions of their factors into spheres. Let M be a Riemannian submanifold with harmonic curvature in a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold of constant curvature. Assume than the mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle and normal connection is flat. Then the second fundamental form is parallel. Thus we can apply the decomposition theorem about submanifolds with parallel second fundamental form.