On some classes of submanifolds satisfying Chen's equality in an Euclidean space (Q2890653)

Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional submanifold of the \((n+m)\)-dimensional Euclidean space, and assume \(n\geq 2\). \textit{B.-Y. Chen} proved [Arch. Math. 60, No.~6, 568--578 (1993; Zbl 0811.53060)] the following inequality NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \inf K\geq {1\over 2}\left\{\kappa-{{n^2(n-2)}\over {n-1}}\,|H|^2\right\} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and characterized the case of equality. Here, \(K\) is the intrinsic sectional curvature of \(M\), \(\kappa\) the scalar curvature, and \(H\) the mean curvature vector. The infimum of \(K\) is attained on planes tangent to \(M\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper, the authors characterize the submanifolds for which equality holds under additional hypotheses. In Theorem~2.3 they further assume that \(n\geq 3\) and \(M\) is projectively semi-symmetric; in Theorem~3.3 that \(n\geq 3\) and that condition \(P\cdot P=0\) holds, where \(P\) is the projective curvature tensor.