Genuine deformations of submanifolds. II: the conformal case (Q626507)

The authors extend to the conformal case the concept of genuine deformations of submanifolds, introduced by \textit{M. Dajczer} and the first author for the isometric case [ibid. 12, No.~5, 1105--1129 (2004; Zbl 1068.58005)]. Analogously to that case, they call a conformal deformation of a submanifold \(M^{n} \) genuine if no open subset of \(M^{n} \) can be included as a submanifold of a higher dimensional conformally deformable submanifold in such a way that the conformal deformation of the former is induced by a conformal deformation of the latter. They describe the geometric structure of a submanifold that admits a genuine conformal deformation and give several applications showing the unifying character of this concept.