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Totally umbilical submanifolds in irreducible symmetric spaces

Part of: Local differential geometry Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Bang-Yen Chen  and
Paul Verheyen
Bang-Yen Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, U.S.A.
Paul Verheyen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Katholieke University Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3030 Leuven, Belgium
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Abstract

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A submanifold of a Riemannian manifold is called a totally umbilical submanifold if its first and second fundamental forms are proportional. In this paper we prove the following best possible result.

MSC classification

Secondary: 53B20: Local Riemannian geometry 53C35: Symmetric spaces 53C40: Global submanifolds
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , June 1982 , pp. 332 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

References

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