Divergence-preserving geodesic transformations

DOI10.1017/S0308210500027347MaRDI QIDQ4229278zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eduardo García-Río, Lieven Vanhecke

Publication date 11 April 1999

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0308210500027347

zbMATH Keywords

divergence-preserving geodesic transformationsgeodesic hyperspheresharmonic spacesisoparametric hypersurfaces in real space forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a connected Riemannian manifold and \(P\) a topologically embedded submanifold of \(M\) of dimension \(\geq 1\). A geodesic transformation with respect to \(P\) is a map \(\varphi_P\) defined by \(\exp_\nu(ru) \mapsto \exp_\nu(s(r)u)\), where \(\exp_\nu\) is the exponential map of the normal bundle \(\nu\) of \(P\), \(u\) an arbitrary unit normal vector of \(P\) and \(r\) and \(s(r)\) are sufficiently small so that \(\varphi_P\) is a local diffeomorphism. All data are assumed to be analytic. The authors derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of nontrivial divergence-preserving geodesic transformations in terms of the intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of the submanifold \(P\). These are used to characterize isoparametric hypersurfaces in real space forms among all hypersurfaces by the existence of a divergence-preserving geodesic transformation which is not volume-preserving. A similar result for complex space forms is also obtained. It is also shown that a Riemannian manifold of \(M\) of dimension \(\geq 3\) is locally symmetric if and only if there exists a nontrivial divergence-preserving geodesic transformation with respect to each geodesic in \(M\). Finally, it is shown that the existence of nontrivial divergence-preserving geodesic transformations with respect to geodesic hyperspheres is related to the theory of harmonic spaces.

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