On weakly reflective PF submanifolds in Hilbert spaces

Abstract

A weakly reflective submanifold is a minimal submanifold of a Riemannian manifold which has a certain symmetry at each point. In this paper we introduce this notion into a class of proper Fredholm (PF) submanifolds in Hilbert spaces and show that there exist so many infinite dimensional weakly reflective PF submanifolds in Hilbert spaces. In particular each fiber of the parallel transport map is shown to be weakly reflective. These imply that in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces there exist so many homogeneous minimal submanifolds which are not totally geodesic, unlike in the finite dimensional Euclidean case.

19 pages. Minor mistakes in the formulas (i) and (ii) of Remark 1 (p.8) in the first version have been corrected