We begin a study of invariant isometric immersions into Riemannian manifolds (M, g) equipped with a Riemannian flow generated by a unit Killing vector field ξ. We focus our attention on those (M, g) where ξ is complete and such that the reflections with respect to the flow lines are global isometries (that is, (M, g) is a Killing-transversally symmetric space) and on the subclass of normal flow space forms. General results are derived and several examples are provided.

We determine the naturally reductive homogeneous real hypersurfaces in the family of curvature-adapted real hypersurfaces in quaternionic projective space HPn(n ≥ 3). We conclude that the naturally reductive curvature-adapted real hypersurfaces in HPn are Q-quasiumbilical and vice-versa. Further, we study the same problem in quaternionic hyperbolic space HHn(n ≥ 3).

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of cylindrical ends in compact foliated 3-manifolds and give a sufficient condition for these ends to spiral onto a toral leaf.

In this paper we consider how much we can say about an irreducible symmetric space M which admits a single hypersurface with at most two distinct principal curvatures. Then we prove that if N is conformally flat, then N is quasiumbilical and M must be a sphere, a real projective space or the noncompact dual of a sphere or a real projective space.

We give an account of the minimal volume of the plane, as defined by Gromov, and first computed by Bavard and Pansu. We also describe some related geometric inequalities.

In this paper we prove that minimal 3-spheres of CR type with constant sectional curvature c in the complex projective space CPn are all equivariant and therefore the immersion is rigid. The curvature c of the sphere should be c = 1/(m2-1) for some integer m≥ 2, and the full dimension is n = 2m2-3. An explicit analytic expression for such an immersion is given.

In this work we study the behaviour of compact, smooth, orientable, spacelike hypersurfaces without boundary, which are immersed in cosmological spacetimes and move under the inverse mean curvature flow. We prove longtime existence and regularity of a solution to the corresponding nonlinear parabolic system of partial differential equations.

In 1903 H. Minkowski obtained two integral formulae for closed convex surfaces in three dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper we obtain generalised Minkowski formulae on compact orientable immersed submanifolds of an arbitrary Riemannian manifold. By successive specialisation we indicate how known integral theorems can be obtained as particular cases of our result.

A Riccati inequality involving the Ricci curvature can be used to deduce many interesting results about the geometry and topology of manifolds. In this note we use it to present a short alternative proof to a theorem of Ambrose.

In this paper we establish an integral formula for compact hypersurfaces in non-flat space forms, and apply it to derive some interesting applications. In particular, we obtain a characterization of geodesic spheres in terms of a relationship between the scalar curvature of the hypersurface and the size of its Gauss map image. We also derive an inequality involving the average scalar curvature of the hypersurface and the radius of a geodesic ball in the ambient space containing the hypersurface, characterizing the geodesic spheres as those for which equality holds.

A submanifold of a Riemannian manifold is called a totally umbilical submanifold if the second fundamental form is proportional to the first fundamental form. In this paper, we shall prove that there is no totally umbilical submanifold of codimension less than rank M — 1 in any irreducible symmetric space M. Totally umbilical submanifolds of higher codimensions in a symmetric space are also studied. Some classification theorems of such submanifolds are obtained.

In this paper, we give a sufficient condition (Theorem) in order that one domain D1 bounded by a C2-smooth boundary can be enclosed in, or enclose, another domain D0 bounded by the same kind of boundary. A same kind of sufficient condition for convex bodies (Corollary) is also obtained.

We give a sharp lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem on a domain of a complex submanifold of a Kaehler manifold with curvature bounded from above. The bound on the first eigenvalue is given as a function of the extrinsic outer radius and the bounds on the curvature, and it is attained only on geodesic spheres of a space of constant holomorphic sectional curvature embedded in the Kaehler manifold as a totally geodesic submanifold.

In this note, we propose an extension of the compactness property for Kähler-Einstein metrics to critical metrics of Weyl functional on compact Kähler surfaces.

In this paper we describe the moduli spaces of degree d branched superminimal immersions of a compact Riemann surface of genus g into S4. We prove that when d ≥ max {2g, g + 2}, such spaces have the structure of projectivzed fibre products and are path-connected quasi projective varieties of dimension 2d − g + 4. This generalizes known results for spaces of harmonic 2-spheres in S4.

The problem is the reconstruction of the shape of an object, whose shell is a surface star-shaped with respect to a point 0, from the knowledge of the volume of every “half-object” obtained by taking any plane through 0. Conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the solution are given. The main result consists in showing that any uniform a-priori bound on the mean curvature of the shell reestablishes continuous dependence on the data for bodies satisfying a certain symmetry condition.

Recently, Chen established a sharp relationship between the Ricci curvature and the squared mean curvature for a submanifold in a Riemannian space form with arbitrary codimension. Afterwards, we dealt with similar problems for submanifolds in complex space forms.

In the present paper, we obtain sharp inequalities between the Ricci curvature and the squared mean curvature for submanifolds in Sasakian space forms. Also, estimates of the scalar curvature and the k-Ricci curvature respectively, in terms of the squared mean curvature, are proved.

Totally umbilical submanifolds of dimension greater than four in quaternion-space-forms are completely classified.

We consider the extent of certain complete hypersurfaces of Euclidean space. We prove that every complete hypersurface in En+1 with sectional curvature bounded below and non-positive scalar curvature has at least (n − 1) unbounded coordinate functions.

We apply the Moser iteration method to obtain a pointwise bound on the norm of the second fundamental form from a bound on its Ln norm for a complete minimal submanifold in a sphere. As an application we show that a complete minimal submanifold in a sphere with finite total curvature and Ricci curvature bounded away from -∞ must be compact. This complements similar results of Osserman and Oliveira in the case the ambient space is the Euclidean and the hyperbolic space respectively.