Regular intersection of quadrics and parallel submanifolds (Q1407655)

It is a widely open problem how algebraic submanifolds can be characterized in terms of differential geometry. The situation is more appropriate if one adopts the affine or projective point of view; see e.g. \textit{G. Bol's} note [Ber. Math.-Tagung Tübingen 1946, 42-44 (1947; Zbl 0029.07302)]. But even with low degrees it is difficult. In the present paper regular immersions of an \(n\)-dimensional manifold \( M^{n} \) into the equiaffine space \( A^{n+p} \) with codimension \( p \leq n(n+1)/2 \) are considered. The question is dealt with how to characterize, among them, intersections of \( p \) quadrics. Regularity is meant in the sense of the author's recent solution of the normalization problem [Math. Z. 241, 353-373 (2002; Zbl 1015.53004)]. The existence of such quadrics is reduced to the existence of \( p \) linear forms on a transversal bundle satisfying two covariant differential relations, one of them resembling a divisibility condition in the hypersurface case \( p = 1 \) of \textit{K. Nomizu} and \textit{U. Pinkall} [Res. Math. 13, 338-362 (1988; Zbl 0657.53007)]. Additional results are gained for normally flat immersions with vanishing cubic form and for hypersurface immersions into quadrics.