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Totally real submanifolds in $S^{6}(1)$ satisfying Chen's equality

Author(s): Franki Dillen; Luc Vrancken
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 1633-1646.
MSC (1991): Primary 53B25; Secondary 53A10, 53B35, 53C25, 53C42
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Abstract: In this paper, we study 3-dimensional totally real submanifolds of $S^{6}(1)$. If this submanifold is contained in some 5-dimensional totally geodesic $S^{5}(1)$, then we classify such submanifolds in terms of complex curves in $\mathbb{C}P^{2}(4)$ lifted via the Hopf fibration $S^{5}(1)\to \mathbb{C}P^{2}(4)$. We also show that such submanifolds always satisfy Chen's equality, i.e. $\delta _{M} = 2$, where $\delta _{M}(p)=\tau (p)-\inf K(p)$ for every $p\in M$. Then we consider 3-dimensional totally real submanifolds which are linearly full in $S^{6}(1)$ and which satisfy Chen's equality. We classify such submanifolds as tubes of radius $\pi /2$ in the direction of the second normal space over an almost complex curve in $S^{6}(1)$.


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Additional Information:

Franki Dillen
Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Departement Wiskunde, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Email: Franki.Dillen@wis.kuleuven.ac.be

Luc Vrancken
Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Departement Wiskunde, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Email: Luc.Vrancken@wis.kuleuven.ac.be

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01626-1
PII: S 0002-9947(96)01626-1
Received by editor(s): April 19, 1995
Additional Notes: The authors are Senior Research Assistants of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium).
The authors would like to thank J. Bolton and L.M. Woodward for helpful discussions.
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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