Spherical submanifolds which are of 2-type via the second standard immersion of the sphere

Abstract

Let Sm(r) be an m-sphere of constant sectional curvature 1/r2 and M an n-dimensional compact minimal submanifold of Sm(r). If Sm(r) is imbedded in Em+1 by its first standard imbedding, then, by a well-known result of Takahashi [11], the Euclidean coordinate functions restricted to M are eigenfunctions of Δ on M with the same eigenvalue n/r2. Moreover, the center of mass of M in Em+1 coincides with the center of the hypersphere Sm(r) in Em+1. Thus, M is mass-symmetric in Sm(r) ⊂ Em+\ Consequently, we see that if one wants to study the spectral geometry of a submanifold of Sm(r), it is natural to immerse Sm(r) by its k-th standard immersion, in particular, by its second standard immersion.