Nonnegatively curved Euclidean submanifolds in codimension two

DOI10.4171/CMH/398zbMATH Open1367.53047arXiv1512.03681OpenAlexW2963780497MaRDI QIDQ2374415FDOQ2374415

Authors: Luis A. Florit, Wolfgang Ziller 

Publication date: 15 December 2016

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a classification of compact Euclidean submanifolds $M^{n}subset{mathbbR}^{n+2}$ with nonnegative sectional curvature, for $nge3$. The classification is in terms of the induced metric (including the diffeomorphism classification of the manifold), and we study the structure of the immersions as well. In particular, we provide the first known example of a nonorientable quotient $({mathbbS}^{n-1}imes{mathbbS}^1)/{mathbbZ}_{2}subset{mathbbR}^{n+2}$ with nonnegative curvature. For the 3-dimensional case, we show that either the universal cover is isometric to ${mathbbS}^{2}imesmathbbR$, or $M^3$ is diffeomorphic to a lens space, and the complement of the (nonempty) set of flat points is isometric to a twisted cylinder $(N^{2}imesmathbbR)/mathbbZ$. As a consequence we conclude that, if the set of flat points is not too big, there exists a unique flat totally geodesic surface in $M^3$ whose complement is the union of one or two twisted cylinders over disks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03681

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zbMATH Keywords

nonnegative curvatureEuclidean submanifoldscodimension-two submanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Local submanifolds (53B25)

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