Totally geodesic hypersurfaces of homogeneous spaces
Abstract
We show that a simply connected Riemannian homogeneous space M which admits a totally geodesic hypersurface F is isometric to either (a) the Riemannian product of a space of constant curvature and a homogeneous space, or (b) the warped product of the Euclidean space and a homogeneous space, or (c) the twisted product of the line and a homogeneous space (with the warping/twisting function given explicitly). In the first case, F is also a Riemannian product; in the last two cases, it is a leaf of a totally geodesic homogeneous fibration. Case (c) can alternatively be characterised by the fact that M admits a Riemannian submersion onto the universal cover of the group SL(2) equipped with a particular left-invariant metric, and F is the preimage of the two-dimensional solvable totally geodesic subgroup.
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@article{arxiv.1210.5015,
title = {Totally geodesic hypersurfaces of homogeneous spaces},
author = {Y. Nikolayevsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5015},
year = {2012}
}
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8 pages