Showing papers by "Jurgen Berndt published in 1991"

Real hypersurfaces in quaternionic space forms.

Abstract: Obviously, every totally umbilical hypersurface of a Riemannian manifold is curvature-adapted. In spaces of constant sectional curvature every hypersurface is curvature-adapted. But in other ambient spaces our definition is restrictive. For example, in non-Euclidean spaces of constant holomorphic sectional curvature the curvature-adapted (real) hypersurfaces are exactly the Hopf hypersurfaces (see [3] for the notion of Hopf hypersurfaces). In locally Symmetrie spaces it turns out that for the investigation of the geometry of curvature-adapted hypersurfaces Jacobi field theory may be very useful ( s can be seen in section 5).