Parallel and totally umbilical hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry \(\mathrm{Sol}^4_0\) (Q6539614)

Thurston geometries form an important subset of Riemannian homogeneous spaces. There are eight three-dimensional Thurston geometries and 19 four-dimensional ones, one of them is the solvable Lie group \(\mathrm{Sol}^4_0\) (consisting of certain upper triangular real \(4\times 4\) matrices depending on four parameters). In the present paper, the authors classify some fundamental families of hypersurfaces of \(\mathrm{Sol}^4_0\). Specifically, they classify the hypersurfaces of \(\mathrm{Sol}^4_0\) for which the second fundamental form \(h\) is a Codazzi tensor (Codazzi hypersurfaces), containing the class of hypersurfaces with parallel second fundamental form (parallel hypersurfaces, \(\nabla h = 0\)) which in turn contains the class of totally geodesic hypersurfaces (\(h = 0\)). They also classify the totally umbilical hypersurfaces of \(\mathrm{Sol}^4_0\), and give a closed expression for the Riemann curvature tensor of \(\mathrm{Sol}^4_0\) using two integrable complex structures.