Isometric immersions in codimension two of warped products into space forms (Q1766849)

In this detailed paper the authors treat warped products of Riemannian manifolds and their isometric immersions into the standard real space forms. Their main goal is to find an answer for the following problem: To understand the possible cases in which the isometric immersions fail, locally or globally, to be warped products of isometric immersions. For Riemannian products and isometric immersions into Euclidean spaces, this has been studied by J. D. Moore and for non-flat space forms by R. Molzan. For the warped product case, fundamental decomposition results have been obtained by S. Nölker, a case which has also been studied by M. Schaaf. The authors first provide a detailed overview of material about warped products and their immersions into real space forms and then use this to prove the following main result of the paper: They provide a local classification of isometric immersions of the warped products \(N= L^p\times_\rho M^n\) (\(p\in C^\infty(L^p)\) being the warping function) into the real space form \(Q^{p+ n+ k}\) for codimensions \(k= 1,2\) and under the assumptions that \(n\geq k+ 1\) and that the warped product \(N\) has no points with the same constant sectional curvature c as the ambient space form \(Q\).