Clifford systems, algebraically constant second fundamental form and isoparametric hypersurfaces (Q1275225)

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Clifford systems, algebraically constant second fundamental form and isoparametric hypersurfaces
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    Clifford systems, algebraically constant second fundamental form and isoparametric hypersurfaces (English)
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    20 February 2000
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    The main result of the paper is that a submanifold with parallel mean curvature in a real space form, whose second fundamental form has the same algebraic type as the one of a symmetric submanifold, is locally symmetric. As an application, the authors give a new proof of \textit{É. Cartan}'s classification of isoparamametric hypersurfaces in spheres with three different principal curvatures [Math. Z. 45, 335-367 (1939; Zbl 0021.15603)]. It should be pointed out that \textit{N. H. Kuiper} already associated Clifford systems to the more general situation of tight \((n-1)\)-connected \(2n\)-dimensional submanifolds in Section 5B of [Invent. Math. 10, 209-238 (1970; Zbl 0187.18902)].
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    Clifford systems
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    isoparametric hypersurfaces
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