Normal homogeneous spaces admitting totally geodesic hypersurfaces

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/04940781MaRDI QIDQ1127016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Koji Tojo

Publication date 25 March 1999

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj/04940781

zbMATH Keywords

constant sectional curvaturenormal homogeneous spacestotally geodesic hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie algebras of Lie groups (22E60) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Review text

A normal homogeneous space is a reductive homogeneous manifold \(G/K\) endowed with a \(G\)-invariant Riemannian metric induced by a biinvariant inner product on the compact Lie group \(G\) (e.g., the opposite of the Killing-Cartan form). In this paper, the author proves that if a normal homogeneous space \(G/K\), with \(G\) compact simple, admits a totally geodesic hypersurface, then \(G/K\) has (positive) constant sectional curvature. This generalizes a result of \textit{B.-Y. Chen} and \textit{T. Nagano} [Duke Math. J. 45, 405-425 (1978; Zbl 0384.53024)], asserting that the sphere is the only compact symmetric space admitting a totally geodesic hypersurface. Moreover, if \(G/K\) is a homogeneous space with \(G\) and \(K\) of the same rank (which is equivalent to \(G/K\) having positive Euler characteristic), the author proves that \(G/K\) has (positive) constant sectional curvature under the weaker assumption that the tangent space to \(G/K\) admits a curvature invariant hyperplane. A crucial role in the proof is played by the description of the Lie algebra of \(K\) in terms of the root system of the Lie algebra of \(G\).

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