Submanifolds of the Cayley projective plane with bounded second fundamental form (Q912409)

Let M be a smooth submanifold of a Riemannian manifold and \(\delta\) : UM\(\to {\mathbb{R}}\), \(u\to \| h(u,u)\|^ 2,\) where UM denotes the unit tangent bundle and h the second fundamental form of \textit{M. A. Ros} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 121, 377-382 (1985; Zbl 0589.53065)] established some results about Kähler submanifolds with \(\delta\leq 1/4\) in a complex projective space \({\mathbb{C}}P^ n(1)\); recently the first author and \textit{H. Gauchman} [Kodai Math. J. 12, No.3, 296-307 (1989)] studied totally complex submanifolds with \(\delta\leq 1/4\) in a quaternionic projective space \({\mathbb{H}}P^ n(1).\) This article is concerned with such problems in the Cayley projective plane \(CaP^ 2(1)\). Pursuing the methods of Ros the authors prove the following theorem: ``Let M be a compact totally complex submanifold of \(CaP^ 2(1)\). If \(\delta\leq 1/4\) then (i) h is parallel; (ii) if \(\delta\leq 1/4\) then M is totally geodesic in \(CaP^ 2(1)\) and congruent to either \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 2(1)\) or \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 1(1)\); (iii) if \(\delta =1/4\) then M is congruent to \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 1(1/2)\).'' A further pinching theorem of that kind for minimal totally real immersions into \(CaP^ 2(1)\) is as well established by the authors.