On spherical submanifolds with finite type spherical Gauss map

Abstract

Chen and Lue (2007) initiated the study of spherical submanifolds with finite type spherical Gauss map. In this paper, we firstly prove that a submanifold Mn of the unit sphere double-struck Sm-1 has non-mass-symmetric 1-type spherical Gauss map if and only if Mn is an open part of a small n-sphere of a totally geodesic (n + 1)-sphere double-struck Sn+1 ⊂ double-struck Sm-1. Then we show that a non-totally umbilical hypersurface M of double-struck Sn+1 with nonzero constant mean curvature in double-struck Sn+1 has mass-symmetric 2-type spherical Gauss map if and only if the scalar curvature curvature of M is constant. Finally, we classify constant mean curvature surfaces in double-struck S3 with mass-symmetric 2-type spherical Gauss map.