Index of compact minimal submanifolds of the Berger spheres (Q2127341)

The authors study the index of compact minimal submanifolds of the Berger spheres \(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}_\tau\). This study is done by discussing according to the value of \(0< \tau\leq 1\). The authors give important examples of compact minimal submanifolds of \(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}_\tau\) in which they compute the index and nullity. They obtain some classification results about stability of compact minimal submanifolds of \(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}_\tau\) by showing the following results: -- There are no stable immersed compact minimal \(d\)-dimensional submanifolds of \(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}_\tau\) when \(\frac{1}{d+1} < \tau^2\leq 1\). -- If \(\tau^2 =\frac{1}{d+1}\) for some positive integer \(d\) then an embedded compact minimal submanifold \(M^d\) of \(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}_\tau\) is stable if and only if \(d = 2m + 1\) and \(M^{2m+1}\) is the induced \(\mathbb{S}^1\)-bundle by the Hopf fibration over an embedded compact complex submanifold \(N^{2m}\) of \(\mathbb{CP}^n(4)\). -- If \(0 < \tau^2\leq \frac{1}{2m+2}\) for some integer \(m \geq 0\), then any immersed submanifold \(M^{2m+1}\) which is the induced \(\mathbb{S}^1\)-bundle by the Hopf fibration \(\pi : \mathbb{S}^{2n+1}_\tau \to\mathbb{CP}^n(4)\), over a compact complex submanifold \(N^{2m}\) of \(\mathbb{CP}^n(4)\) is stable. -- If \(\frac{1}{3}\leq\tau^2\leq 1\), then a compact orientable minimal surface of \(\mathbb{S}^3_ \tau\) has index one if and only if \(M\) is either the unique minimal sphere of \(\mathbb{S}^3_ \tau\) or the Clifford surface in \(\mathbb{S}^3_ \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\).