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

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1486177219zbMATH Open1381.53104arXiv1402.3400OpenAlexW2512107940MaRDI QIDQ511500FDOQ511500

Xiang Ma, Tongzhu Li, Zhenxiao Xie, Changping Wang

Publication date: 21 February 2017

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3400

zbMATH Keywords

shape operatorsubmanifoldsspace formsisotropic curvesmean curvature spheressuperconformal mapMöbius transformationconformal Gauß map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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