Homogeneous spaces without taut embeddings

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-88-05716-XMaRDI QIDQ1113472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gudlaugur Thorbergsson

Publication date 1988

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/s0012-7094-88-05716-x

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spaceshomologylens spacesMorse theorytaut submanifoldtorsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Review text

The main theorem of the paper says that if \(M\subseteq E^ N\) is a taut submanifold with respect to a field F then the first non-trivial homology \(H_ i(M)\), \(i>0\), has no torsion other than of order two. In particular there are no taut 3-manifolds with respect to \({\mathbb{Z}}_ p\), \(p\geq 3\), which are not taut with respect to \({\mathbb{Z}}_ 2\). Many examples are given of homogeneous spaces with such torsion which consequently do not admit taut embeddings. Particular cases are the lens spaces L(p,1) except \(L(2,1)\cong {\mathbb{R}}P^ 3.\) The corresponding question for tight submanifolds seems still to be open.

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