Explicit representations of minimal immersions of 2-spheres intoS 2m (Q4344843)

Let \(x: S^2 \to S^n(1)\) be a minimal immersion of a differentiable 2-sphere into \(S^n (1)\). Assume that the Gauss curvature \(K\) of the induced metric satisfies \[ {2 \over (s+1) (s+2)} \leq K\leq {2\over s(s+1)} \] for some \(s\in \mathbb{N}\). For \(s=1,2\) it is known that \(K\) must then be a constant, and a quantization conjecture for the curvature is that this implication should be true for all \(s\in \mathbb{N}\). This paper contains interesting contributions to the topic. The authors give a detailed analysis of totally isotropic curves; from this they derive an explicit representation, in terms of independent parameters, for all minimal immersions \(S^2\to S^{2m} (1)\) with area \(2\pi [m(m+1) +2]\).