Geometric calculus of the Gauss map

DOI10.1007/S00006-016-0727-1MaRDI QIDQ2361052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Lewintan

Publication date 29 June 2017

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06870

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss mapgraded Laplacianmean curvature vectorminimal submanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

Abstract: In this paper we connect classical differential geometry with the concepts from geometric calculus. Moreover, we introduce and analyze a more general Laplacian for multivector-valued functions on manifolds. This allows us to formulate a higher codimensional analog of Jacobi`s field equation.

Review text

The article under review concerns the geometry of the Grassmann manifold and the Gauss map. Revising and extending ideas and methods of the geometric calculus presented in [\textit{D. Hestenes} and \textit{G. Sobczyk}, Clifford algebra to geometric calculus. A unified language for mathematics and physics. Dordrecht: Kluwer (1984; Zbl 0541.53059)], the author develops original techniques for studying the Gauss map. Particularly, an original version of the Laplacian for multivector-valued functions on manifolds is proposed, analogues of the classical Ruh-Vilms theorem on the Gauss map of minimal submanifolds and Berstein type theorems are discussed, and specific features of the mean curvature vector field are analyzed.

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