Umbilical submanifolds of S^n R

DOI10.4153/CJM-2013-003-3MaRDI QIDQ5409832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruno Mendonça, Ruy Tojeiro

Publication date 15 April 2014

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1679

zbMATH Keywords

product manifoldsumbilical submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Abstract: We give a complete classification of umbilical submanifolds of arbitrary dimension and codimension of $S{f}^{n}imesR$, extending the classification of umbilical surfaces in $S{f}^{2}imesR$ by Rabah-Souam and Toubiana as well as the local description of umbilical hypersurfaces in $S{f}^{n}imesR$ by Van der Veken and Vrancken. We prove that, besides small spheres in a slice, up to isometries of the ambient space they come in a two-parameter family of rotational submanifolds whose substantial codimension is either one or two and whose profile is a curve in a totally geodesic $S{f}^{1}imesR$ or $S{f}^{2}imesR$, respectively, the former case arising in a one-parameter family. All of them are diffeomorphic to a sphere, except for a single element that is diffeomorphic to Euclidean space. We obtain explicit parametrizations of all such submanifolds. We also study more general classes of submanifolds of $S{f}^{n}imesR$ and $H{y}^{n}imesR$. In particular, we give a complete description of all submanifolds in those product spaces for which the tangent component of a unit vector field spanning the factor $R$ is an eigenvector of all shape operators. We show that surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in $S{f}^{n}imesR$ and $H{y}^{n}imesR$ having this property are rotational surfaces. We also prove a Dajczer-type reduction of codimension theorem for submanifolds of $S{f}^{n}imesR$ and $H{y}^{n}imesR$.

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