Submanifolds in euclidean space with simple geodesics
Submanifolds in euclidean space with simple geodesics
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具有简单测地线的欧几里得空间中的子流形
DOI:
10.1007/bf01475754
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
S. Schirrmacher
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作者:
D. Ferus;S. Schirrmacher
In this case either all the geodesics are straight lines, or they are all circles of the same radius. Then the submanifold is locally an affine subspace, or a standard imbedded compact riemannian symmetric space of rank 1. If" simple" is interpreted as" of constant (first) curvature", where this constant may depend on the individual geodesic, and if we restrict our attention to a hypersurface of E"+ 1, then it is locally a spherical cylinder Sk (r) x E"-k: From the formulas (2) to (4) below it follows readily that the second fundamental form is covariantly constant, and then [-3] implies the assertion. More recently other" simplicity conditions" were studied, see [12], and also [2] for a similar problem.