Maximal totally geodesic submanifolds and index of symmetric spaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1476367055zbMATH Open1356.53054arXiv1405.0598OpenAlexW2964188462WikidataQ115166573 ScholiaQ115166573MaRDI QIDQ342691FDOQ342691

Authors: Jürgen Berndt, Carlos Olmos 

Publication date: 18 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let M be an irreducible Riemannian symmetric space. The index i(M) of M is the minimal codimension of a totally geodesic submanifold of M. In previous work the authors proved that i(M) is bounded from below by the rank rk(M) of M. In this paper we classify all irreducible Riemannian symmetric spaces M for which the equality holds, that is, rk(M) = i(M). In this context we also obtain an explicit classification of all non-semisimple maximal totally geodesic submanifolds in irreducible Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type and show that they are closely related to irreducible symmetric R-spaces. We also determine the index of some symmetric spaces and classify the irreducible Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type with i(M) = 4,5 or 6.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0598

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zbMATH Keywords

rankindextotally geodesic submanifold\(R\)-spaceirreducible Riemannian symmetric space of noncompact typereflective submanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global submanifolds (53C40)

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