Conformally flat hypersurfaces with Bianchi-type Guichard net (Q1948062)

The two authors obtained classification results on the conformally flat hypersurfaces with cyclic Guichard net in [Int. J. Math. 18, No. 3, 301--329 (2007; Zbl 1126.53036)]. In this paper, they provide a partial classification result for generic 3-dimensional conformally flat hypersurfaces in the conformal 4-sphere with Bianchi-type Guichard net. The main theorem of this paper is the following: Let \(\varphi(x,y,z)=g(ax+by+cz)\), where \(g^{\prime 2}=C-A\cos 2g\) and \(a,b,c,A,C \in \mathbb{R}\) satisfy \(abc \neq 0\) and \(A \neq 0, \pm C\). Then \(\varphi\) defines a conformally flat hypersurface \(f\) in the conformal 4-sphere so that its canonical principle Guichard net is non-cyclic and of (triply) Bianchi type for a suitable choice of constant sectional curvature representative of the induced conformal structure. Conversely, any conformally flat hypersuface with this intrinsic geometry comes from such a function \(\varphi\). The authors also propose to investigate the further complete classification of conformally flat hypersurfaces.