Totally geodesic discs in bounded symmetric domains

Abstract: In this paper, we characterize

C^{2}

-smooth totally geodesic isometric embeddings

f c o l o n O m e g a o O m e g a^{'}

between bounded symmetric domains

O m e g a

and

O m e g a^{'}

which extend

C^{1}

-smoothly over some open subset in the Shilov boundaries and have nontrivial normal derivatives on it. In particular, if

O m e g a

is irreducible, there exist totally geodesic bounded symmetric subdomains

O m e g a_{1}

and

O m e g a_{2}

of

O m e g a^{'}

such that

f = (f_{1}, f_{2})

maps into

O m e g a_{1} i m e s O m e g a_{2} s u b s e t O m e g a

where

f_{1}

is holomorphic and

f_{2}

is anti-holomorphic totally geodesic isometric embeddings. If

e x t r a n k (O m e g a^{'}) < 2 e x t r a n k (O m e g a)

, then either

f

or

is a standard holomorphic embedding.

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