REAL HYPERSUREAACES IN COMPLEX TWO-PLANE GRASSMANNIANS WITH PARALLEL SHAPE OPERATOR II (Q4822729)

In this paper the author studies the complex two-plane Grassmannians \(G_2(\mathbb{C}^{m+2})\), i.e. the Riemannian symmetric spaces of all complex 2-dimensional linear subspaces of \(\mathbb{C}^{m+2}\). These spaces are the unique compact irreducible Riemannian manifolds admitting both, a Kähler structure \(J\) and a quaternionic Kähler structure \(I\) not containing \(J\). It is well known that in complex or quaternionic space forms there do not exist real hypersurfaces with parallel second fundamental form tensor. In \textit{Y. J. Suh} [Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 67, No. 3, 493--502 (2003; Zbl 1038.53059)] the author established the analogue statement for the complex two-plane Grassmannians, proving the following theorem: There do not exist real hypersurfaces \(M\) in \(G_2(\mathbb{C}^{m+2})\) with parallel second fundamental form tensor, i.e. \(\nabla A \equiv 0\). In the present paper the author proves that, under certain conditions, the second fundamental form tensor of a real hypersurface \(M\) in \(G_2(\mathbb{C}^{m+2})\) cannot even be parallel along certain distributions: Let \(N\) be a unit normal vector field on such a real hypersurface \(M\). Let further \(\xi :=-JN\) and \({\xi}_i:=-J_iN\), \(i=1,2,3\), where \((J_1,J_2,J_3)\) is a local basis of \(I\), set \([\xi ]:=\text{span}\{\xi \}\) as well as \(D^{\perp} :=\text{span}(\;{\xi}_1,{\xi}_2,{\xi}_3\}\), and consider the distribution \(F:=[\xi]\cup D^{\perp}\). Then the following holds: There do not exist real hypersurfaces \(M\) in \(G_2(\mathbb{C}^{m+2})\) with second fundamental form tensor parallel along \(F\), when \(\xi\) or \(D^{\perp}\) are invariant under the shape operator of \(M\).