We study the area-minimization property of the cones over Stiefel manifolds V_(m)(F^(n))(F=R,C or H)and their products,where the Stiefel manifolds are embedded into the unit sphere of Euclidean space in a standard way...We study the area-minimization property of the cones over Stiefel manifolds V_(m)(F^(n))(F=R,C or H)and their products,where the Stiefel manifolds are embedded into the unit sphere of Euclidean space in a standard way.We will show that these cones are areaminimizing if the dimension is at least 7,using the Curvature Criterion of[Mem.Amer.Math.Soc.,1991,91(446):vi+111 pp.].This extends the results of corresponding references,where the cones over products of Grassmann manifolds were considered.展开更多
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文摘We study the area-minimization property of the cones over Stiefel manifolds V_(m)(F^(n))(F=R,C or H)and their products,where the Stiefel manifolds are embedded into the unit sphere of Euclidean space in a standard way.We will show that these cones are areaminimizing if the dimension is at least 7,using the Curvature Criterion of[Mem.Amer.Math.Soc.,1991,91(446):vi+111 pp.].This extends the results of corresponding references,where the cones over products of Grassmann manifolds were considered.
