On Hamiltonian minimal submanifolds in the space of oriented geodesics in real space forms (Q258061)

The authors prove that a deformation of a hypersurface in a real space form \(S^{n+1}_{p,1}\) (of signature \((p,n+1-p)\)) induces a Hamiltonian variation of the normal congruence in the space \(L(S^{n+1}_{p,1})\) of oriented geodesics. As an application, it is shown that every Hamiltonian minimal submanifold in \(L(S^{n+1})\) (resp. \(L(H^{n+1})\)) w.r.t. the (para-)Kähler Einstein structure is locally the normal congruence of a hypersurface \(\Sigma\) in a sphere \(S^{n+1}\) (resp. a hyperbolic space \(H^{n+1}\)) that is a critical point of the functional \(\mathcal{W}(\Sigma)=\int_\Sigma(\Pi^n_{i=1}|\varepsilon+k_i^2|)^{1/2}\), where \(k_i\) denote the principal curvatures of \(\Sigma\) and \(\varepsilon\in\{-1,1\}\). In addition, is is proven that every Hamiltonian minimal surface in \(L(S^3)\) (resp. \(L(H^3)\)), w.r.t. the (para-)Kähler conformally flat structure, is the normal congruence of a surface in \(S^3\) (resp. \(H^3\)) that is a critical point of the functional \(\mathcal{W}'(\Sigma)=\int_\Sigma\sqrt{H^2-K+1}\) (resp. \(\mathcal{W}'(\Sigma)=\int_\Sigma\sqrt{H^2-K-1}\)), where \(H\) and \(K\) denote, respectively, the mean and Gaussian curvature of \(\Sigma\).