Parallel projective manifolds and symmetric bounded domains (Q760923)

The author studies complex submanifolds of complex projective spaces with parallel second fundamental form. Let D be a irreducible symmetric bounded domain, V the tangent space of D at a point \(p\in D\) and K the isotropy subgroup at p in the automorphism group of D. Let the projective space P(V) associated to V be endowed with a K-invariant Kähler metric with positive constant holomorphic sectional curvature. If one takes a highest weight vector v of the irreducible K-module V, the orbit \(M=K[v]\subset P(V)\) is a complete full complex submanifold with parallel second fundamental form. The author proves that this correspondence induces a bijection between the set of all equivalence classes of irreducible symmetric bounded domains D with dim \(D\geq 2\) and the set of all equivalence classes of our submanifolds M. As an application it is proved that the automorphism group of a nonsingular hyperplane section of M is reductive if and only if the corresponding D is a unit ball or of tube type. This provides a unified construction of compact complex manifolds admitting no Einstein Kähler metric found by \textit{J. Hano} [Osaka J. Math. 20, 787-791 (1983; Zbl 0541.53049)] and \textit{Y. Sakane} (to appear in Osaka J. Math.)