Compact Dupin hypersurfaces

DOI10.4310/ICCM.2021.V9.N1.A4zbMATH Open1481.53002arXiv2101.05316MaRDI QIDQ2051114FDOQ2051114

Authors: Thomas E. Cecil 

Publication date: 24 November 2021

Published in: ICCM Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A hypersurface $M$ in $$ is said to be Dupin if along each curvature surface, the corresponding principal curvature is constant. A Dupin hypersurface is said to be proper Dupin if the number of distinct principal curvatures is constant on $M$, i.e., each continuous principal curvature function has constant multiplicity on $M$. These conditions are preserved by stereographic projection, so this theory is essentially the same for hypersurfaces in $$ or $S^n$. The theory of compact proper Dupin hypersurfaces in $S^n$ is closely related to the theory of isoparametric hypersurfaces in $S^n$, and many important results in this field concern relations between these two classes of hypersurfaces. In 1985, Cecil and Ryan conjectured on p. 184 of the book, "Tight and Taut Immersions of Manifolds," that every compact, connected proper Dupin hypersurface $Msubset{S}^n$ is equivalent to an isoparametric hypersurface in $S^n$ by a Lie sphere transformation. This paper gives a survey of progress on this conjecture and related developments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05316

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie quadriccurvature sphereproper Dupin hypersurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

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