Characterization of manifolds of constant curvature by spherical curves

DOI10.1007/S10231-019-00874-5zbMATH Open1437.53040arXiv1809.05943OpenAlexW3104150474WikidataQ127679299 ScholiaQ127679299MaRDI QIDQ2297629FDOQ2297629

Authors: Luiz C. B. da Silva, José Deibsom da Silva 

Publication date: 20 February 2020

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that the so-called rotation minimizing (RM) frames allow for a simple and elegant characterization of geodesic spherical curves in Euclidean, hyperbolic, and spherical spaces through a certain linear equation involving the coefficients that dictate the RM frame motion (da Silva, da Silva in Mediterr J Math 15:70, 2018). Here, we shall prove the converse, i.e., we show that if all geodesic spherical curves on a Riemannian manifold are characterized by a certain linear equation, then all the geodesic spheres with a sufficiently small radius are totally umbilical and, consequently, the given manifold has constant sectional curvature. We also furnish two other characterizations in terms of (i) an inequality involving the mean curvature of a geodesic sphere and the curvature function of their curves and (ii) the vanishing of the total torsion of closed spherical curves in the case of three-dimensional manifolds. Finally, we also show that the same results are valid for semi-Riemannian manifolds of constant sectional curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05943

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zbMATH Keywords

totally umbilical submanifoldspace formspherical curvegeodesic sphererotation minimizing frame

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global submanifolds (53C40)

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