Wintgen ideal submanifolds of codimension two, complex curves, and Möbius geometry

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1486177219MaRDI QIDQ511500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tongzhu Li, Xiang Ma, Zhenxiao Xie, Changping Wang

Publication date 21 February 2017

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3400, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1486177219

zbMATH Keywords

conformal Gauß mapisotropic curvesmean curvature spheresMöbius transformationshape operatorspace formssubmanifoldssuperconformal map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: Wintgen ideal submanifolds in space forms are those ones attaining equality pointwise in the so-called DDVV inequality which relates the scalar curvature, the mean curvature and the scalar normal curvature. Using the framework of Moebius geometry, we show that in the codimension two case, the mean curvature sphere of the Wintgen ideal submanifold corresponds to an 1-isotropic holomorphic curve in a complex quadric Q. Conversely, any 1-isotropic complex curve in Q describes a 2-parameter family of m-dimensional spheres whose envelope is always a m-dimensional Wintgen ideal submanifold at the regular points. The relationship with Dajczer and Tojeiro's work on the same topic as well as the description in terms of minimal surfaces in the Euclidean space is also discussed.

Review text

The authors introduce the concept of a \textit{Wintgen ideal submanifold} of a real space form using a particular form of the shape operators. For these submanifolds equality holds in the so-called DDVV inequality between intrinsic and extrinsic quantities of the submanifold, cf. [\textit{G. Jianquan} and \textit{T. Zizhou}, Pac. J. Math. 237, No. 1, 87--95 (2008; Zbl 1163.53038)]. This concept generalizes \textit{super-conformal} surfaces in the \(4\)-sphere, cf. [\textit{P. Wintgen}, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. A 288, 993--995 (1979; Zbl 0421.53003)]. The authors show that the mean curvature spheres of a Wintgen ideal submanifold of codimension two form an \(1\)-isotropic holomorphic curve in a complex quadric. As an application one obtains that for a Wintgen ideal submanifold of codimension two in Euclidean space the centers of its mean curvature sphere congruence form an Euclidean minimal surface.

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