The Gauss map and second fundamental form of surfaces in a Lie group

DOI10.1007/S10231-015-0540-9zbMATH Open1360.53063arXiv1506.03743OpenAlexW2099011297WikidataQ115385054 ScholiaQ115385054MaRDI QIDQ325957FDOQ325957

Authors: Abigail Folha, Carlos Peñafiel 

Publication date: 11 October 2016

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we give the integrability conditions for the existence of an isometric immersion from an orientable simply connected surface having prescribed Gauss map and positive extrinsic curvature into some unimodular Lie groups. In particular, we discuss the case when the Lie group is the euclidean unit sphere $mathbb{S}^3$ and establish a correspondence between simply connected surfaces having extrinsic curvature $K$, $K$ different from 0 and -1, immersed in $mathbb{S}^3$ with simply connected surfaces having non-vanishing extrinsic curvature immersed in the euclidean space $mathbb{R}^3$. Moreover, we show that a surface isometrically immersed in $mathbb{S}^3$ has positive constant extrinsic curvature if, and only if, its Gauss map is a harmonic map into the Riemann sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03743

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapGauss mapextrinsic curvatureunimodular Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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