Gauss map and the topology of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces of \(\mathbb{S}^7\) and \(\mathbb{CP}^3 \) (Q786002)

Having in mind the classifications of the images of complete minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ by the Gauss map as well as the images of surfaces of constant mean curvatures with the constraint that these images are included in hemispheres, the authors of this paper extend these studies to the case of a Gaussian map $\gamma:M\to S^6$ of an oriented hypersurface $M$ of the unit sphere $S^7$. They show that $\gamma$ is harmonic if and only if $M$ has constant mean curvature. They establish interesting results on the topology and the geometry of the surfaces of constant mean curvatures of the sphere $S^7$, under a hypothesis on the image. By a symmetrization process of Hopf, they define a Gauss map for the hypersurfaces of the projective space $\mathbb{CP}^3$ and they obtain similar results for the constant mean curvature hypersurfaces of this space.