ON SOME TYPES OF ISOPARAMETRIC HYPERSURFACES IN SPHERES I
ON SOME TYPES OF ISOPARAMETRIC HYPERSURFACES IN SPHERES I
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DOI:
10.2748/tmj/1178240877
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发表时间:
1975
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0.5
通讯作者:
H. Ozeki;M. Takeuchi
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作者:
H. Ozeki;M. Takeuchi
Introduction. This paper is a continuation of Part I [13]. In the first half of the present paper, we study the homogeneous isoparametric hyper surf aces in spheres. Every homogeneous hyper surf ace in a sphere is represented as an orbit of a linear isotropy group of a Riemannian symmetric space of rank 2, due to Hsiang-Lawson [8]. In §1, we study the linear isotropy representations of Riemannian symmetric spaces and their orbits in general. §2 and §3 are devoted to a study of the homogeneous isoparametric hyper surf aces, their classification and invariant polynomials. In § 4 and § 5, we construct explicitly the defining polynomial F for each homogeneous isoparametric hypersurface in a sphere, which was done by Cartan [3] in case g — 3. In the second half, we prove that every closed isoparametric hypersurface in a sphere in case g = 4 and m^ or w2 = 2 is homogeneous. Cartan [4] indicated, without proof, that in case g = 4, every closed isoparametric hypersurface in a sphere with the same multiplicities is homogeneous. In case m^ = m2 = 2, we give a brief outline of its proof in §9. In §6, we exhibit explicit forms of {pa, qa] for some of the homogeneous examples. We see that, for a homogeneous isoparametric hypersurface with g = 4, m^ — 4 and m2 = 3, its defining polynomial — F does not satisfy the condition (B) given in § 6 of Part I. Thus one can conclude that our example constructed in Theorem 2 of Part I for F = H and r = 1 is not homogeneous. Consequently, there are at least two types of isoparametric hypersurfaces in S with the same multiplicities; one is homogeneous, and the other is not. It seems to be an interesting problem to seek a local geometric quantity in order to distinguish them.