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Minimal helix submanifolds and Minimal Riemannian foliations

Differential Geometry 2015-04-16 v1

Abstract

We investigate minimal helix submanifolds of any dimension and codimension immersed in Euclidean space. Our main result proves that a ruled minimal helix submanifold is a cylinder. As an application we classify complex helix submanifolds of Cn\mathbb{C}^n: They are extrinsic products with a complex line as a factor. The key tool is Corollary 1.3 which allows us to classify Riemannian foliations of open subsets of the Euclidean space with minimal leaves. Finally, we consider the case of a helix hypersurface with constant mean curvature and prove that it is either a cylinder or an open part of a hyperplane.

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@article{arxiv.1504.03748,
  title  = {Minimal helix submanifolds and Minimal Riemannian foliations},
  author = {Antonio J. Di Scala and Gabriel Ruiz-Hernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03748},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages