Hypersurfaces in a conformally flat space

The hypersurface of a space is one of the most important objects in a space. Many authors studied the various geometric aspects of hypersurfaces in a space form. The notion of conformal flatness is one of the most primitive concepts in differential geometry. Again, conformally flat space is a proper generalization of a space form. In this paper, we study the geometry of hypersurfaces in a conformally flat manifold. Then we have investigated some sufficient conditions imposed on the shape operator for which the hypersurface satisfies various pseudosymmetric-type conditions imposed on its conformal curvature tensor.

REMARKS ON BIANCHI SUMS AND PONTRJAGIN CLASSES

We use the exterior and composition products of double forms together with the alternating operator to reformulate Pontrjagin classes and all Pontrjagin numbers in terms of the Riemannian curvature. We show that the alternating operator is obtained by a succession of applications of the first Bianchi sum and we prove some useful identities relating the previous four operations on double forms. As an application, we prove that for a $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}k$-conformally flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 4k$, the Pontrjagin classes $P_i$ vanish for any $i\geq k$. Finally, we study the equality case in an inequality of Thorpe between the Euler–Poincaré characteristic and the $k{\rm th}$ Pontrjagin number of a $4k$-dimensional Thorpe manifold.

KOBAYASHI CONFORMAL METRIC ON MANIFOLDS, CHERN-SIMONS AND η-INVARIANTS

The main aim of this paper is to present a canonical Riemannian smooth metric on a given uniformized conformal manifold (conformally flat manifold) which is compatible with the conformal structure. This metric is related to the Kobayashi construction for complex-analytic manifolds and gives a new conformal invariant. As an application, the paper studies the Chern-Simons functional and the η-invariant associated with the conformal class of conformally-Euclidean metrics on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold.