Euclidean submanifolds with Jacobi mean curvature vector field (Q678178)

The Jacobi operator \(J\) was introduced by J. Simons and appears in the study of the second variation formula of the area function for a compact minimal submanifold \(M\) of a Riemannian manifold \(\overline M\). It is an elliptic operator acting on the normal bundle \(N(M)\) of \(M\). A cross section \(V\) of \(N(M)\) is said to be a Jacobi field if \(JV=0\). In the present paper, the authors study submanifolds in Euclidean space whose mean curvature vector field is a Jacobi field. At first the authors produce nontrivial (non-minimal) examples and then look for additional conditions which imply minimality. In my opinion the basic lemma (Lemma 1 on page 19) is not correct.