Frame bundle approach to generalized minimal submanifolds

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Abstract: We extend the notion of r-minimality of a submanifold in arbitrary codimension to u-minimality for a multi-index uinmathbbNq, where q is the codimension. This approach is based on the analysis on the frame bundle of orthonormal frames of the normal bundle to a submanifold and vector bundles associated with this bundle. The notion of u-minimality comes from the variation of sigmau-symmetric function obtained from the family of shape operators corresponding to all possible bases of the normal bundle. We obtain the variation field, which gives alternative definition of u--minimality. Finally, we give some examples of u-minimal submanifolds for some choices of u.












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