Curvature-adapted hypersurfaces of 2-type in non-flat quaternionic space forms

TL;DR

This paper classifies certain curvature-adapted hypersurfaces of non-flat quaternionic space forms that are of Chen type 2, identifying specific geometric structures and their properties, including minimality and mass-symmetry.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of 2-type curvature-adapted hypersurfaces in quaternionic space forms, including new examples and properties.

Findings

Geodesic hyperspheres of arbitrary radius in quaternionic projective space are 2-type.

Tubes about embedded quaternionic projective spaces are 2-type.

In quaternionic hyperbolic space, 2-type hypersurfaces with constant principal curvatures are geodesic spheres and tubes about hyperplanes.

Abstract

We classify curvature-adapted real hypersurfaces $M$ of non-flat quaternionic space forms $\mathbb HP^m$ and $\mathbb HH^m$ that are of Chen type 2 in an appropriately defined (pseudo) Euclidean space of quaternion-Hermitian matrices, where in the hyperbolic case we assume additionally that the hypersurace has constant principal curvatures. In the quaternionic projective space they include geodesic hyperspheres of arbitrary radius $r \in (0, \pi/2)$ except one, two series of tubes about canonically embedded quaternionic projective spaces of lower dimensions and two particular tubes about a canonically embedded $\mathbb CP^m \subset \mathbb HP^m $. On the other hand, the list of 2-type curvature-adapted hypersurfaces with constant principal curvatures in $\mathbb HH^m$ is reduced to geodesic spheres and tubes of arbitrary radius about totally geodesic quaternionic hyperplane $\mathbb HH^{m-1}.$ Among these hypersurfaces we determine those that are mass-symmetric or minimal. We also show that the horosphere $H_3$ in $\mathbb HH^m $ is not of finite type but satisfies $\Delta^2\widetilde x =$ const.