Infinitesimal bendings of complete Euclidean hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S00229-018-1000-9MaRDI QIDQ1785567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Ibieta Jimenez

Publication date 1 October 2018

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09545

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean hypersurface infinitesimal bending isometric bending

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Abstract: A local description of the non-flat infinitesimally bendable Euclidean hypersurfaces was recently given by Dajczer and Vlachos cite{DaVl}. From their classification, it follows that there is an abundance of infinitesimally bendable hypersurfaces that are not isometrically bendable. In this paper we consider the case of complete hypersurfaces

f c o l o n M^{n} o m a t h b b R^{n + 1}

,

n g e q 4

. If there is no open subset where

f

is either totally geodesic or a cylinder over an unbounded hypersurface of

m a t h b b R^{4}

, we prove that

f

is infinitesimally bendable only along ruled strips. In particular, if the hypersurface is simply connected, this implies that any infinitesimal bending of

f

is the variational field of an isometric bending.

Review text

Let \(f:M^n\to\mathbb R^{n+1}\) be an isometric immersion of a Riemannian manifold \(M^n\) into Euclidean space \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\). An isometric bending of \(f\) is a smooth map \[ F:(-\epsilon,\epsilon)\times M^n\to\mathbb R^{n+1} \] such that \(F(0,\cdot)=f(\cdot)\) and \(F(t,\cdot)\) is an isometric immersion for each \(t\in(-\epsilon,\epsilon)\). As a weaker notion of isometric bending, a vector field \(\tau\in\Gamma(f^{\ast}T\mathbb R^{n+1})\) is called an infinitesimal bending if it satisfies \[ \langle\tilde{\nabla}_X\tau,f_{\ast}Y\rangle+ \langle\tilde{\nabla}_Y\tau,f_{\ast}X\rangle=0 \] for any vector fields \(X\), \(Y\) on \(M\), where \(\tilde{\nabla}\) denotes the connection of \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\). By the classification result due to Dajczer and Vlachos, it is known that there is an abundance of infinitesimally bendable hypersurfaces that are not isometrically bendable. In this paper, the author considers the case of complete hypersurfaces \(f:M^n\to\mathbb R^{n+1}\), \(n\geq 4\). If there is no open subset where \(f\) is either totally geodesic or a cylinder over an unbounded hypersurface of \(\mathbb R^4\), he proves that \(f\) is infinitesimally bendable only along ruled strips. In particular, if the hypersurface is simply connected, this implies that any infinitesimal bending of \(f\) is the variational field of an isometric bending.

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