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The Gauss Map of Hypersurfaces in 2-Step Nilpotent Lie Groups

Eugene V. Petrov

Published 2008-03-14Version 1

In this paper we consider smooth oriented hypersurfaces in 2-step nilpotent Lie groups with a left invariant metric and derive an expression for the Laplacian of the Gauss map for such hypersurfaces in the general case and in some particular cases. In the case of CMC-hypersurface in the (2m+1)-dimensional Heisenberg group we also derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the Gauss map to be harmonic and prove that for m=1 all CMC-surfaces with the harmonic Gauss map are "cylinders".

Journal: Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry, vol. 2 (2006), no. 2, p. 186-206 (As Ye. V. Petrov)
Categories: math.DG
Subjects: 53C40, 53C42, 53C43
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