Isothermic submanifolds of symmetric $R$-spaces
Differential Geometry
2011-12-19 v2
Abstract
We extend the classical theory of isothermic surfaces in conformal 3-space, due to Bour, Christoffel, Darboux, Bianchi and others, to the more general context of submanifolds of symmetric -spaces with essentially no loss of integrable structure.
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@article{arxiv.0906.1692,
title = {Isothermic submanifolds of symmetric $R$-spaces},
author = {F. E. Burstall and N. M. Donaldson and F. Pedit and U. Pinkall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1692},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
35 pages, 3 figures. v2: typos and other infelicities corrected.