SLIDE 16 Construction of isoparametric hypersurfaces:
Principal orbits of the isotropy representations of Riemannian symmetric pairs (U, K) of rank 2 = ⇒ All homogeneous isopara. hypersurf. (Hsiang-Lawson,
Algebraic construction of Cartan-M¨ unzner polynomials by representations of Clifford algebras in case g = 4 (Ozeki-Takeuchi, Ferus-Karcher-M¨ unzner) OT-FKM type = ⇒ So many non-homogeneous isopara. hypersurf.
Classification of isoparametric hypersurfaces:
g = 1: Nn = Sn, a great or small sphere; g = 2: Nn = Sm1(r1) × Sm2(r2), (n = m1 + m2, 1 ≤ m1 ≤ m2 ≤ n − 1, r2
1 + r2 2 = 1), Clifford hypersurfaces;
g = 3: Nn is homog., Nn =
SO(3) Z2+Z2 , SU(3) T2 , Sp(3) Sp(1)3 , F4 Spin(8)
(E. Cartan); g = 6: Nn is homog.
m1 = m2 = 1: homog. (Dorfmeister-Neher, R. Miyaoka) m1 = m2 = 2: homog. (R. Miyaoka)
g = 4: Nn is either homog. or OT-FKM type (Cecil-Chi-Jensen, Immervoll, Chi).
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