Minimal isometric immersions of inhomogeneous spherical space forms into spheres— a necessary condition for existence

Spherical Minimal Immersions of Spherical Space Forms

Introduction. A number of authors [C], [DW1], [DW2], [L], [T] have studied minimal isometric immersions of Riemannian manifolds into round spheres, and in particular of round spheres into round spheres. As was observed by T. Takahashi [T], if Φ:M → S(r) ⊂ R is such a minimal immersion, then the components of Φ must be eigenfuctions of the Laplace operator on M for the same eigenvalue. And conve...

Minimal Immersions of Symmetric Spaces into Spheres

Intrinsic Obstructions to the Existence of Isometric Minimal Immersions

S.S. Chern raised the problem to find necessary and sufficient conditions for a given Riemannian manifold to be realizable on a minimal submanifold of a Euclidean space. The aim of this paper is to provide new necessary conditions. For minimal submanifolds in a Euclidean space we consider the negative of the Ricci tensor as defining a new metric, which is nothing but the third fundamental form,...

The Existence of Minimal Immersions of 2-Spheres

Existence of isometric immersions into nilpotent Lie groups

We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of isometric immersions of a simply connected Riemannian manifold into a two-step nilpotent Lie group. This comprises the case of immersions into H-type groups. MSC 2000: 53C42, 53C30