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A rigidity theorem for the Clifford tori in $S^3$

Author(s): Kazuyuki Enomoto; Yoshihisa Kitagawa; Joel L. Weiner
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 265-268.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C40; Secondary 53C45
MathSciNet review: 1285988
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Abstract: Let $S^3$ be the unit hypersphere in the 4-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb R^4$ defined by $\sum_{i=1}^4 x_i^2=1$. For each $\theta$ with $0<\theta<\pi/2$, we denote by $M_\theta$ the Clifford torus in $S^3$ given by the equations $x_1^2+x_2^2=\cos^2\theta$ and $x_3^2+x_4^2= \sin^2\theta$. The Clifford torus $M_\theta$ is a flat Riemannian manifold equipped with the metric induced by the inclusion map $i_\theta\colon M_\theta\to S^3$. In this note we prove the following rigidity theorem: If $f\colon  M_\theta \to S^3$ is an isometric embedding, then there exists an isometry $A$ of $S^3$ such that $f=A\circ i_\theta$. We also show no flat torus with the intrinsic diameter $\le\pi$ is embeddable in $S^3$ except for a Clifford torus.


References:

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Y. Kitagawa, Rigidity of the Clifford tori in $S^3$, Math. Z. 198 (1988), 591--599. MR 89g:53081

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------, Embedded flat tori in the unit 3-sphere J. Math. Soc. Japan 47 (1995), 275--296.


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Kazuyuki Enomoto
Affiliation: Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Oshamanbe, Hokkaido, 049-35 Japan
Email: enomoto@it.osha.sut.ac.jp

Yoshihisa Kitagawa
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Utsunomiya University, Mine-machi, Utsunomiya, 321 Japan

Joel L. Weiner
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2565 The Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 U.S.A.
Email: joel@math.hawaii.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03001-8
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03001-8
Keywords: Clifford torus, flat torus
Received by editor(s): December 16, 1993
Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 7, 1994
Communicated by: Christopher Croke
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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