International Workshop on
Special Geometry and Minimal Submanifolds

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   Toru kajigaya (Tohoku Univ.、King's College London)
   
Title : On the minimality of normal bundles and austere submanifolds   
 Abstract

 The notion of austere submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold was first introduced by Harvey and Lawson to construct special Lagrangian submanifolds in the complex Euclidean space C^n. They proved that a submanifold in the Euclidean space R^n is austere if and only if the normal bundle is special Lagrangian in the tangent bundle over R^n which is naturally regarded as C^n. However, the geometrical interpretation of austere submanifolds in general Riemannian manifolds is unknown except a few cases. In this talk, we generalize their result as a context of minimal normal bundles in tangent bundles equipped with Sasaki metric, and give a characterization of austere submanifolds in the real space forms. Moreover, we investigate extrinsic properties of Lagrangian normal bundles. In particular, we discuss the minimality of normal bundles in the tangent bundles over the complex space forms, and the Hamiltonian minimality of normal bundles over isoparametric submanifolds in R^n.




 
   
 
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