Geometric calculus of the Gauss map (Q2361052)

The article under review concerns the geometry of the Grassmann manifold and the Gauss map. Revising and extending ideas and methods of the geometric calculus presented in [\textit{D. Hestenes} and \textit{G. Sobczyk}, Clifford algebra to geometric calculus. A unified language for mathematics and physics. Dordrecht: Kluwer (1984; Zbl 0541.53059)], the author develops original techniques for studying the Gauss map. Particularly, an original version of the Laplacian for multivector-valued functions on manifolds is proposed, analogues of the classical Ruh-Vilms theorem on the Gauss map of minimal submanifolds and Berstein type theorems are discussed, and specific features of the mean curvature vector field are analyzed.