Clifford structures, bilegendrian surfaces, and extrinsic curvature

Abstract

We use Clifford algebras to construct a unified formalism for studying constant extrinsic curvature immersed surfaces in riemannian and semi-riemannian $3$-manifolds in terms of immersed bilegendrian surfaces in their unitary bundles. As an application, we provide full classifications of both complete and compact immersed bilegendrian surfaces in the unit tangent bundle $\text{U}{\mathbb{S}}^3$ of the $3$-sphere.

36 pages. Dedicated to François Labourie on the occasion of his 60th birthday