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Hopf hypersurfaces of low type in non-flat complex space forms

Differential Geometry 2010-05-21 v1

Abstract

We classify Hopf hypersurfaces of non-flat complex space forms CP^m(4) and CH^m(-4), denoted jointly by CQ^m(4c), that are of 2-type in the sense of B. Y. Chen, via the embedding into a suitable (pseudo) Euclidean space of Hermitian matrices by projection operators. This complements and extends earlier classifications by Martinez-Ros (minimal case) and Udagawa (CMC case), who studied only hypersurfaces of CP^m and assumed them to have constant mean curvature instead of being Hopf. Moreover, we rectify some claims in Udagawa's paper to give a complete classification of constant-mean-curvature-hypersurfaces of 2-type. We also derive a certain characterization of CMC Hopf hypersurfaces which are of 3-type and mass-symmetric in a naturally defined hyperquadric containing the image of CQ^m(4c) via these embeddings. The classification of such hypersurfaces is done in CQ^2(4c), under an additional assumption in the hyperbolic case that the mean curvature is not equal to 2/3. In the process we show that every standard example of class B in CQ^m(4c) is mass-symmetric and we determine its Chen-type.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3572,
  title  = {Hopf hypersurfaces of low type in non-flat complex space forms},
  author = {Ivko Dimitric},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3572},
  year   = {2010}
}

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37 pages

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