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The extrinsic holonomy Lie algebra of a parallel submanifold

Differential Geometry 2012-06-08 v4

Abstract

We investigate parallel submanifolds of a Riemannian symmetric space NN. The special case of a symmetric submanifold has been investigated by many authors before and is well understood. We observe that there is an intrinsic property of the second fundamental form which distinguishes full symmetric submanifolds from arbitrary full parallel submanifolds of NN, usually called "1-fullness of MM". Furthermore, for every parallel submanifold MM of NN we consider the pullback bundle TNMTN|M with its induced connection, which admits a distinguished parallel subbundle oscMosc M, usually called the "second osculating bundle of MM". If MM is a complete parallel submanifold of NN, then we can describe the corresponding holonomy Lie algebra of oscMosc M by means of the second fundamental form of MM and the curvature tensor of NN at the origin. If moreover NN is simply connected and MM is even a full symmetric submanifold of NN, then we will calculate the holonomy Lie algebra of TNMTN|M in an explicit form.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2611,
  title  = {The extrinsic holonomy Lie algebra of a parallel submanifold},
  author = {Tillmann Jentsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2611},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

32 pages. Changes since v3: Grammatical corrections. Sections 2.1 and 2.2 have been revised

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