Harmonic manifolds and the volume of tubes about curves

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDW027zbMATH Open1354.53061OpenAlexW1740245426MaRDI QIDQ2822142FDOQ2822142

Authors: Balázs Csikós, Márton Horváth 

Publication date: 27 September 2016

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: H. Hotelling proved that in the n-dimensional Euclidean or spherical space, the volume of a tube of small radius about a curve depends only on the length of the curve and the radius. A. Gray and L. Vanhecke extended Hotelling's theorem to rank one symmetric spaces computing the volumes of the tubes explicitly in these spaces. In the present paper, we generalize these results by showing that every harmonic manifold has the above tube property. We compute the volume of tubes in the Damek-Ricci spaces. We show that if a Riemannian manifold has the tube property, then it is a 2-stein D'Atri space. We also prove that a symmetric space has the tube property if and only if it is harmonic. Our results answer some questions posed by L. Vanhecke, T. J. Willmore, and G. Thorbergsson.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02468

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein manifoldsymmetric spacetubeharmonic manifoldDamek-Ricci spaceWeyl tube formulad'Atri space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global submanifolds (53C40)

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