Rigidity of pseudo-holomorphic curves of constant curvature in grassmann manifolds

  • Quo Shin Chi

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Abstract

Rigidity of minimal immersions of constant curvature in harmonic sequences generated by holomorphic curves in Grassmann manifolds is studied in this paper by lifting them to holomorphic curves in certain projective spaces. We prove that for such curves the curvature must be positive, and that all such simply connected curves in CPn are generated by Veronese curves, thus generalizing Calabi’s counterpart for holomorphic curves in CPn. We also classify all holomorphic curves from the Riemann sphere into G(2, 4) whose curvature is equal to 2 into two families, which illustrates pseudo-holomorphic curves of positive constant curvature in G(m, N) are in general not unitarily equivalent, constracting to the fact that generic isometric complex submanifolds in a Kaehler manifold are congruent.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)393-406
Number of pages14
JournalTransactions of the American Mathematical Society
Volume313
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1989

Keywords

  • Grassmann manifolds
  • Pseudo-holomorphic curves
  • Veronese curves

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