Curved flats, pluriharmonic maps and constant curvature immersions into pseudo-Riemannian space forms

DOI10.1007/S10455-007-9063-YMaRDI QIDQ2385172zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Brander

Publication date 11 October 2007

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610058

zbMATH Keywords

isometric immersionsloop groupsspace forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Local submanifolds (53B25) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We study two aspects of the loop group formulation for isometric immersions with flat normal bundle of space forms. The first aspect is to examine the loop group maps along different ranges of the loop parameter. This leads to various equivalences between global isometric immersion problems among different space forms and pseudo-Riemannian space forms. As a corollary, we obtain a non-immersibility theorem for spheres into certain pseudo-Riemannian spheres and hyperbolic spaces. The second aspect pursued is to clarify the relationship between the loop group formulation of isometric immersions of space forms and that of pluriharmonic maps into symmetric spaces. We show that the objects in the first class are, in the real analytic case, extended pluriharmonic maps into certain symmetric spaces which satisfy an extra reality condition along a totally real submanifold. We show how to construct such pluriharmonic maps for general symmetric spaces from curved flats, using a generalised DPW method.

Review text

The author shows that the map corresponding to each isometric immersion problem actually contains three families of immersions into different space forms and pseudo-Riemannian space forms, for values of parameter along the nonzero real, imanginary and unitary numbers, respectively (Theorem 3.2). In Theorem 7.1 it is described how to construct special pluriharmonic maps whose extended families satisfy an extra reality condition when restricted to a certain totally real submanifold. They are constructed from real analytic curved flats into a different symmetric space. The main purpose of Section 8.2 is to recharacterise the identification problem which totally geodesic submanifolds with flat normal bundle of the sphere and hyperbolic space belong to the families defined by \textit{D. Ferus} and \textit{F. Pedit} [Math. Ann. 305, No. 2, 329--342 (1996; Zbl 0866.53046)], in terms of pluriharmonic maps.

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