On pseudo-umbilical hypersurfaces of \(S\)-manifolds (Q1912682)

\(S\)-manifolds are generalizations of Sasakian manifolds. Roughly speaking, such a manifold \(N\) is a Riemannian manifold whose tangent bundle \(TN\) splits into an orthogonal sum \({\mathcal L} \oplus {\mathcal M}\), where \(\mathcal L\) is equipped with a complex structure \(f\) and \(\mathcal M\) is generated by a global orthonormal system of ``structure vector fields'' \(\xi_1,\dots, \xi_s\). A distinguished example is given by the bundle space \({\mathcal H}^{2n+s}\) of the fibre product of \(s\) Hopf fibrations \(S^{2n+1} \to \mathbb{C} P^n\). Let \(M\) be a hypersurface of \(N\) with unit normal \(\eta\) and shape operator \(A\) such that \(\mathcal M\) is tangential to \(M\). It is said to be pseudo-umbilical iff \(AX = aX\) for all \(X \perp f\eta\) and \(A \xi_\alpha = f\eta\). The authors prove: In \(N = {\mathcal H}^{2n+s} , M\) is pseudo-umbilical if and only if its image under the canonical projection \({\mathcal H}^{2n+s} \to \mathbb{C} P^n\) is an open part of a geodesic sphere of \(\mathbb{C} P^n\); furthermore, in this situation \(M\) has constant principal curvatures \(a\), \(0\), \(\lambda_1\), \(\lambda_2\) with multiplicities \(2n - 2\), \(s -1\), \(1\), \(1\), respectively. To be precise, for \(s = 1\), i.e. \({\mathcal H}^{2n+s} = S^{2n + 1}\) one has \(\{\lambda_1, \lambda_2\} = \{a, -a^{-1}\}\) in accordance with the results on isoparametric hypersurfaces of spheres.