Minimal Lagrangian submanifolds via the geodesic Gauss map

DOI10.4310/CAG.2016.V24.N5.A3MaRDI QIDQ2396639zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chris Draper, Ian McIntosh

Publication date 24 May 2017

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4170

zbMATH Keywords

isometric immersionHamiltonian vector fieldmean curvature vectorsHamiltonian deformationsgeodesic Gauss mapsspherical Gauss

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12)

Abstract: For an oriented isometric immersion $f:Mo{S}^n$ the spherical Gauss map is the Legendrian immersion of its unit normal bundle $U{M}^{p}erp$ into the unit sphere subbundle of $T{S}^n$, and the geodesic Gauss map $gamma$ projects this into the manifold of oriented geodesics in $S^n$ (the Grassmannian of oriented 2-planes in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$), giving a Lagrangian immersion of $U{M}^{p}erp$ into a Kaehler-Einstein manifold. We give expressions for the mean curvature vectors for both the spherical and geodesic Gauss maps in terms of the second fundamental form of $f$, and show that when $f$ has conformal shape form this depends only on the mean curvature of $f$. In particular we deduce that the geodesic Gauss map of every minimal surface in $S^n$ is minimal Lagrangian. We also give simple proofs that: deformations of $f$ always correspond to Hamiltonian deformations of $gamma$; the mean curvature vector of $gamma$ is always a Hamiltonian vector field. This extends work of Palmer on the case when $M$ is a hypersurface.

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