Relating second order geometry of manifolds through projections and normal sections (Q2232011)

In this paper the authors use normal sections to relate the curvature locus of regular and singular (corank 1) 3-manifolds in both \(\mathbb{R}^6\) and \(\mathbb{R}^5\) with surfaces in a space one dimension lower. The authors also study the relations between the regular and singular cases through projections. They produce a commutative diagram relating the curvature loci for projections and the curvature loci for normal sections and therefore show that the second order geometry (i.e., that which is determined by the 2-jet of its parametrisation) of these manifolds are related. In particular, asymptotic directions for singular corank 1 3-manifolds in \(\mathbb{R}^5\) are defined and these are related to asymptotic directions of regular 3-manifolds in \(\mathbb{R}^6\) and singular corank 1 surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^4\). This work is a natural extension to that carried out in [\textit{J. L. Deolindo-Silva} and \textit{R. O. Sinha}, Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat., Ser. A Mat., RACSAM 115, No. 2, Paper No. 81, 19 p. (2021; Zbl 1483.57035)].