• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.233-236
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• 1992

Let f:M.rarw.N be a smooth map between Rioemannian manifolds M and N. If f maps geodesics of M to geodesics of N, f is called totally geodesic. As is well known, totally geodesic maps are harmonic and the image f(M) of a totally geodesic map f:M.rarw. N is an immersed totally geodesic submanifold of N (cf. .cint. 6.3 of [W]). We are interested in the following question: When is a harmonic map f:M .rarw. N with rank .leq. 1 everywhere on M totally geodesic\ulcorner In other words, when is the image of a harmonic map f:M .rarw. N with rank .leq. 1 everywhere on M geodesics of N\ulcorner In this note, we give some sufficient conditions on curvatures of M. It is interesting that no curvature assumptions on target manifolds are necessary in Theorems 1 and 2. Some properties of totally geodesic maps are also given in Theorem 3. We think our Theorem 3 is somewhat unusual in view of the following classical theorem of Eells and Sampson (see pp.124 of [ES]).

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.493-511
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• 2008

In this article, we study the relations of horizontally homothetic harmonic morphisms with the stability of totally geodesic submanifolds. Let $\varphi:(M^n,g)\rightarrow(N^m,h)$ be a horizontally homothetic harmonic morphism from a Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold of non-positive sectional curvature and let T be the tensor measuring minimality or totally geodesics of fibers of $\varphi$. We prove that if T is parallel and the horizontal distribution is integrable, then for any totally geodesic submanifold P in N, the inverse set, $\varphi^{-1}$(P), is volume-stable in M. In case that P is a totally geodesic hypersurface the condition on the curvature can be weakened to Ricci curvature.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.353-360
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• 2013

We study lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds. The purpose of this paper is to prove that there do not exist totally geodesic screen distributions on semi-symmetric lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds with flat transversal connection.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.503-516
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• 2017

In this paper, we study totally umbilical slant lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Kaehler manifolds. We prove that there do not exist totally umbilical proper slant lightlike submanifolds in indefinite Kaehler manifolds other than totally geodesic proper slant lightlike submanifolds. We also prove that there do not exist totally umbilical proper slant lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Kaehler space forms. Finally, we give a characterization theorem on minimal slant lightlike submanifolds.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.279-293
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• 2002

In this paper, we prove that if every totally real bisectional curvature of an n($\geq$3)-dimensional complete Kahler submanifold of a complex projective space of constant holomorphic sectional curvature c is greater than (equation omitted) (3n$^2$+2n-2), then it is totally geodesic and compact.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.432-446
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• 2022

This article introduces the structure of GCR-lightlike submanifolds of an indefinite Kaehler statistical manifold and derives their geometric properties. The characterizations on totally geodesic, mixed geodesic, D-geodesic and D'-geodesic GCR-lightlike submanifolds have also been obtained.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.763-770
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• 2012

In this paper, we study the geometry lightlike hypersurfaces (M, $g$, S(TM)) of a semi-Riemannian manifold ($\tilde{M}$, $\tilde{g}$) of quasi-constant curvature subject to the conditions: (1) The curvature vector field of $\tilde{M}$ is tangent to M, and (2) the screen distribution S(TM) is either totally geodesic in M or totally umbilical in $\tilde{M}$.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.1331-1339
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• 2018

In this paper the decomposition of basic equations of $(LCS)_n$-manifolds is carried out into horizontal and vertical projections. Further, we study the integrability of the distributions $D,D{\oplus}[{\xi}]$ and $D^{\perp}$ totally geodesic of semi-invariant submanifolds of $(LCS)_n$-manifold.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.655-663
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• 2005

One of the basic questions concerning harmonic map is on the existence of harmonic maps satisfying a certain condition. Rigidity of a certain harmonic map can be considered as an answer for this kinds of questions. In this article, we study a rigidity property of harmonic diffeomorphisms under the condition that the inverse map is also harmonic. We show that every such a harmonic diffeomorphism is totally geodesic or conformal in two dimensional case.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.311-317
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• 2014

We study lightlike hypersurfaces of a semi-Riemannian space form $\tilde{M}(c)$ admitting a semi-symmetric non-metric connection. First, we construct a type of lightlike hypersurfaces according to the form of the structure vector field of $\tilde{M}(c)$, which is called a ascreen lightlike hypersurface. Next, we prove a characterization theorem for such an ascreen lightlike hypersurface endow with a totally geodesic screen distribution.