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On Lagrangian submanifolds in complex hyperquadrics and isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres

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The n-dimensional complex hyperquadric is a compact complex algebraic hypersurface defined by the quadratic equation in the (n+1)-dimensional complex projective space, which is isometric to the real Grassmann manifold of oriented 2-planes and is a compact Hermitian symmetric space of rank 2. In this paper, we study geometry of compact Lagrangian submanifolds in complex hyperquadrics from the viewpoint of the theory of isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. From this viewpoint we provide a classification theorem of compact homogeneous Lagrangian submanifolds in complex hyperquadrics by using the moment map technique. Moreover we determine the Hamiltonian stability of compact minimal Lagrangian submanifolds embedded in complex hyperquadrics which are obtained as Gauss images of isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres with g(=  1, 2, 3) distinct principal curvatures.

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    Hui Ma

  2. Department of Mathematics, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan

    Yoshihiro Ohnita

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Dedicated to Professor Hajime Urakawa on his sixtieth birthday.

H. Ma was partially supported by NSFC grant No. 10501028, SRF for ROCS, SEM and NKBRPC No. 2006CB805905. Y. Ohnita was partially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) No. 17204006.

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Ma, H., Ohnita, Y. On Lagrangian submanifolds in complex hyperquadrics and isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. Math. Z. 261, 749–785 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-008-0350-5

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