Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures
Abstract
Let be an isoparametric hypersurface in the sphere with four distinct principal curvatures. M\"{u}nzner showed that the four principal curvatures can have at most two distinct multiplicities , and Stolz showed that the pair must either be , , or be equal to the multiplicities of an isoparametric hypersurface of FKM-type, constructed by Ferus, Karcher and M\"{u}nzner from orthogonal representations of Clifford algebras. In this paper, we prove that if the multiplicities satisfy , then the isoparametric hypersurface must be of FKM-type. Together with known results of Takagi for the case , and Ozeki and Takeuchi for , this handles all possible pairs of multiplicities except for 10 cases, for which the classification problem remains open. The paper improves the result of a pre-existing preprint with the same title, in which 14 cases remained open.
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@article{arxiv.math/0402272,
title = {Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures},
author = {Tom Cecil and Quo-Shin Chi and Gary Jensen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0402272},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
79 pages, no figures, improved version of a pre-existing preprint with the same title