Compact real hypersurfaces in complex two-plane Grassmannians (Q2901920)

Let \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+2})=\mathrm{SU}(m+2)/\mathrm{S}(\mathrm{U}(2)\mathrm{U}(m))\) be the complex Grassmann manifold of \(2\)-planes in \({\mathbb C}^{m+2}\) equipped with the Riemannian metric induced from the Killing form of the Lie algebra of \({\mathrm{SU}(m+2)}\). With this metric, \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+2})\) is a Hermitian symmetric space and a quaternionic Kähler symmetric space.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the present paper, the authors characterize real hypersurfaces of type \(A\) (tubes over a totally geodesic \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+1})\) in \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+2})\)) in complex 2-plane Grassmannians \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+2})\) in terms of the squared norm of the covariant derivatives of the shape operator \(A\). They show that the Laplacian of the squared norm of \(A\) is nonnegative if an upper estimate for \(\| \nabla A\|^2\) holds. As main result they prove that if for a real hypersurface in complex 2-plane Grassmannians with constant mean curvature the above mentioned upper estimate for the squared norm of the covariant derivatives of the shape operator holds, then it is an equality and \(M\) is congruent to a tube over a totally geodesic \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+1})\) in \(G_2({\mathbb C}^{m+2})\).