Totally umbilic isometric immersions and curves of order two (Q870652)
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Totally umbilic isometric immersions and curves of order two (English)
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13 March 2007
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This paper studies curves of variable geodesic curvatures on submanifolds. A condition is given that these submanifolds are totally umbilic in terms of extrinsic shapes of such curves. It is also shown that under this condition their non-totally geodesic parts have a parallel normalized mean curvature vector and that they are essentially conformally equivalent to extrinsic spheres when they are embeddings. This gives an extension of Nomizu-Yano's result on a characterization of extrinsic spheres.
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totally umbilic
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Frénet curve of proper order 2
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extrinsic sphere
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conformal change of metric
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