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Non-immersibility of a space form as a totally umbilical hypersurface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Masafumi Okumura  and
Hiroshi Takahashi
Masafumi Okumura
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Saitama University, Urawa, Japan
Hiroshi Takahashi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Saitama University, Urawa, Japan
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Synopsis

Suppose that a space form is immersed into another Riemannian manifold as a totally umbilical hypersurface with constant mean curvature. Then, in the ambient manifold, the lengthof the curvature tensor, that of the Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature must satisfy an inequality. In this paper the authors proved the inequality. As applications of the inequality, some immersibility problems are investigated. For example, it is proved that if a space form is immersed in an Einstein manifold as a totally umbilical hypersurface, then the Einstein manifold has constant sectional curvature along the hypersurface. Moreover, it is proved that a space form cannot be immersed into some Kaehlerian manifolds as a totally umbilical hypersurface with constant mean curvature.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 109 , Issue 1-2 , 1988 , pp. 17 - 21
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1988

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