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We investigate parallel submanifolds of a Riemannian symmetric space N. The special case of a symmetric submanifold has been investigated by many authors before and is well understood. We observe that there is an intrinsic property of the second fundamental form which distinguishes full symmetric submanifolds from arbitrary full, complete, parallel submanifolds of N, usually called “1-fullness” of M. Furthermore, for every parallel submanifold \({M\subset N}\) we consider the pullback bundle T N| M with the linear connection induced by \({\nabla^N}\) . Then there exists a distinguished parallel subbundle \({\mathcal {O}M}\) , usually called the “second osculating bundle” of M. Given a parallel isometric immersion from a symmetric space M into N, we can describe the “extrinsic” holonomy Lie algebra of \({\mathcal {O} M}\) by means of the second fundamental form and the curvature tensor of N at some fixed point. If moreover N is simply connected and M is even a full symmetric submanifold of N, then we will calculate the “extrinsic” holonomy Lie algebra of T N| M in an explicit form.
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Jentsch, T. The extrinsic holonomy Lie algebra of a parallel submanifold. Ann Glob Anal Geom 38, 335–371 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-010-9217-1
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Keywords
- Symmetric space
- Parallel submanifold
- Symmetric submanifold
- Second osculating bundle
- Extrinsic holonomy Lie algebra