No skew branes on non-degenerate hyperquadrics

DOI10.1007/S00209-007-0122-7MaRDI QIDQ2384745zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 10 October 2007

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412197

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70)

Abstract: We show that non-degenerate hyperquadrics in R^{n+2} admit no skew branes. Stated more traditionally, a compact codimension-one immersed submanifold of a non-degenerate hyperquadric of euclidean space must have parallel tangent spaces at two distinct points. Similar results have been proven by others, but (except for ellipsoids in R^3) always under C^2 smoothness and genericity assumptions. We use neither assumption here.

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If a compact smooth \(n\)-manifold \(M\) is mapped by a \(C^1\)-immersion \(F\) in \(\mathbb R^{n+2}\) so that \(F(M)\) is part of a non-degenerate hyperquadric, then there are two distinct points on the image \(F(M)\) with parallel tangent planes. This assertion is proved by the authors without further assumptions on differentiability or genericity.

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