Rigidity of closed CSL submanifolds in the unit sphere
Yong Luo
Chongqing University of Technology, ChinaLinlin Sun
Wuhan University, China
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Abstract
We are concerned with the rigidity of contact stationary Legendrian (CSL) submanifolds, critical points of the volume functional of Legendrian submanifolds in a Sasakian manifold, whose Euler–Lagrange equation is a third-order elliptic PDE. We obtain several optimal rigidity theorems for closed CSL submanifolds in the unit sphere by utilizing the maximum principle together with Simons’ identity. In particular, we proved that a closed CSL submanifold is a totally geodesic sphere or a Calabi -torus if , where and are the second fundamental form and the mean curvature vector, respectively. Moreover, an example shows that this assumption is optimal.
Cite this article
Yong Luo, Linlin Sun, Rigidity of closed CSL submanifolds in the unit sphere. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 40 (2023), no. 3, pp. 531–555
DOI 10.4171/AIHPC/50