Regarding the generalized Tanaka-Webster connection, we considered a new notion of $${𝔇}^{\perp }$$ -parallel structure Jacobi operator for a real hypersurface in a complex two-plane Grassmannian G 2(ℂm+2) and proved that a real hypersurface in G 2(ℂm+2) with generalized Tanaka-Webster $${𝔇}^{\perp }$$ -parallel structure Jacobi operator is locally congruent to an open part of a tube around a totally geodesic quaternionic projective space ℍP n in G 2(ℂm+2), where m = 2n.

We study the classifying problem of immersed submanifolds in Hermitian symmetric spaces. Typically in this paper, we deal with real hypersurfaces in a complex two-plane Grassmannian $G_2\left({ℂ}^{m+2}\right)$ which has a remarkable geometric structure as a Hermitian symmetric space of rank 2. In relation to the generalized Tanaka-Webster connection, we consider a new concept of the parallel normal Jacobi operator for real hypersurfaces in $G_2\left({ℂ}^{m+2}\right)$ and prove non-existence of real hypersurfaces in $G_2\left({ℂ}^{m+2}\right)$ with generalized Tanaka-Webster...

Given a Hörmander system $X=\{X_1,\cdots ,X_m\}$ on a domain $\Omega \subseteq {𝐑}^n$ we show that any subelliptic harmonic morphism $\phi$ from $\Omega$ into a $\nu$-dimensional riemannian manifold $N$ is a (smooth) subelliptic harmonic map (in the sense of J. Jost & C-J. Xu, [9]). Also $\phi$ is a submersion provided that $\nu \le m$ and $X$ has rank $m$. If $\Omega ={𝐇}_n$ (the Heisenberg group) and $X=\left\{\frac{1}{2}\left(L_{\alpha }+L_{\overline{\alpha }}\right),\frac{1}{2i}\left(L_{\alpha }-L_{\overline{\alpha }}\right)\right\}$, where $L_{\overline{\alpha }}=\partial /\partial {\overline{z}}^{\alpha }-i{z}^{\alpha }\partial /\partial t$ is the Lewy operator, then a smooth map $\phi :\Omega \to N$ is a subelliptic harmonic morphism if and only if $\phi \circ \pi :(C\left({𝐇}_n\right),F_{{\theta }_0})\to N$ is a harmonic morphism, where $S^1\to C\left({𝐇}_n\right)\stackrel{\pi }{\to }\to {𝐇}_n$ is the canonical circle bundle and $F_{{\theta }_0}$ is the Fefferman...

In the mid fifties, Charles Ehresmann defined Geometry as "the theory of more or less rich structures, in which algebraic and topological structures are generally intertwined". In 1973 he defined it as the theory of differentiable categories, their actions and their prolongations. Here we explain how he progressively formed this conception, from homogeneous spaces to locally homogeneous spaces, to fibre bundles and foliations, to a general notion of local structures, and to a new foundation of differential...

We prove short time existence for the Ricci flow on open manifolds of non-negative complex sectional curvature without requiring upper curvature bounds. By considering the doubling of convex sets contained in a Cheeger–Gromoll convex exhaustion and solving the singular initial value problem for the Ricci flow on these closed manifolds, we obtain a sequence of closed solutions of the Ricci flow with non-negative complex sectional curvature which subconverge to a Ricci flow on the open manifold. Furthermore,...

The gradient flow of bending energy for plane curve is studied. The flow is considered under two kinds of constraints; one is under the area and total-length constraints; the other is under the area and local-length constraints. The fundamental results (the local existence and uniqueness) were obtained independently by Kurihara and the second author for the former one; by Okabe for the later one. For the former one the global existence was shown for any smooth initial curves, but the asymptotic...