Planar pseudo-geodesics and totally umbilic submanifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-023-01498-1arXiv2107.10087OpenAlexW3185726104MaRDI QIDQ6187567FDOQ6187567

Authors: S. Markvorsen, Matteo Raffaelli 

Publication date: 15 January 2024

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study totally umbilic isometric immersions between Riemannian manifolds. First, we provide a novel characterization of the totally umbilic isometric immersions with parallel normalized mean curvature vector, i.e., those having nonzero mean curvature vector and such that the unit vector in the direction of the mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle. Such characterization is based on a family of curves, called planar pseudo-geodesics, which represent a natural extrinsic generalization of both geodesics and Riemannian circles: being planar, their Cartan development in the tangent space is planar in the ordinary sense; being pseudo-geodesics, their geodesic and normal curvatures satisfy a linear relation. We study these curves in detail and, in particular, establish their local existence and uniqueness. Moreover, in the case of codimension-one immersions, we prove the following statement: an isometric immersion $iotacolonMhookrightarrowQ$ is totally umbilic if and only if the extrinsic shape of every geodesic of $M$ is planar. This extends a well-known result about surfaces in $mathbb{R}^3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10087

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zbMATH Keywords

planar pseudo-geodesicsumbilic isometric immersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Local submanifolds (53B25)

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