Circles in compact homogeneous Riemannian spaces and immersions of finite type (Q4531389)

The first results in the theory of finite-type immersions, due to the author, were collected in his book [Total mean curvature and submanifolds of finite type, World Sci. Publishing, Singapore (1984; Zbl 0537.53049)]. Since then many geometers contributed to this theory. A survey in this field up to present time is also given by the author [Soochow J. Math. 22, 117-337 (1996; Zbl 0867.53001)]. In the present paper the author produces some interesting results between circles, tori in Riemannian symmetric spaces and the theory of finite-type-immersions. It is proved that a finite-type isometric immersion of a compact irreducible homogeneous space carries a homogeneous curve into a curve of finite type. The same is true for a finite-type isometric immersion of a flat torus if a circle is carried. Additionally, an isometric immersion from an irreducible symmetric space of compact type into a Euclidean space is of finite type if and only if it carries each maximal flat torus into a submanifold of finite type. Also for a finite-type isometric immersion from a compact symmetric space \(M\) into a Euclidean space, \(M\) is of rank one if and only if it carries circle with radius \(r>0\) into a curve of finite type. Finally, an isometric immersion from a compact, rank one, symmetric space into a Euclidean space which carries circle into a curve of finite type, is of finite-type.