We study surfaces in R4 whose tangent spaces have constant principal angles with respect to a plane. Using a PDE we prove the existence of surfaces with arbitrary constant principal angles. The existence of such surfaces turns out to be equivalent to the existence of a special local symplectomorphism of $\R^2$. We classify all surfaces with one principal angle equal to $0$ and observe that they can be constructed as the union of normal holonomy tubes. We also classify the complete constant angles surfaces in R4 with respect to a plane. They turn out to be extrinsic products. We characterize which surfaces with constant principal angles are compositions in the sense of Dajczer-Do Carmo. Finally, we classify surfaces with constant principal angles contained in a sphere and those with parallel mean curvature vector field.

Surfaces in R4 with constant principal angles with respect to a plane / DI SCALA, ANTONIO JOSE'; Ruiz Hernandez, G.; Bayard, P.; Osuna Castro, O.. - In: GEOMETRIAE DEDICATA. - ISSN 0046-5755. - STAMPA. - 162:(2013), pp. 153-176. [10.1007/s10711-012-9721-5]

Surfaces in R4 with constant principal angles with respect to a plane

DI SCALA, ANTONIO JOSE';
2013

Abstract

We study surfaces in R4 whose tangent spaces have constant principal angles with respect to a plane. Using a PDE we prove the existence of surfaces with arbitrary constant principal angles. The existence of such surfaces turns out to be equivalent to the existence of a special local symplectomorphism of $\R^2$. We classify all surfaces with one principal angle equal to $0$ and observe that they can be constructed as the union of normal holonomy tubes. We also classify the complete constant angles surfaces in R4 with respect to a plane. They turn out to be extrinsic products. We characterize which surfaces with constant principal angles are compositions in the sense of Dajczer-Do Carmo. Finally, we classify surfaces with constant principal angles contained in a sphere and those with parallel mean curvature vector field.
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