The reduction conjecture for Wintgen ideal submanifolds

Let x:MmRm+px:M^m\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^{m+p} be a Wintgen ideal submanifold without umbilic points. Let D2=Span{E1,E2}\mathbb{D}_2=\operatorname{Span}\{E_1,E_2\} be its canonical distribution, and suppose that it generates an integrable distribution D\mathbb{D} of dimension k<mk<m. Reduction conjecture. Locally, xx is Möbius equivalent to a cone, a cylinder, or a rotational submanifold over a kk-dimensional minimal Wintgen ideal submanifold in, respectively, Sk+p{\mathbb S}^{k+p}, Rk+p{\mathbb R}^{k+p}, or Hk+p{\mathbb H}^{k+p}. This has been proved for k=2k=2 and for k=3,4,5k=3,4,5; the general case remains open.

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Xiang Ma and Zhenxiao Xie, “The Moebius geometry of Wintgen ideal submanifolds”, arXiv:1404.1440 (2014).

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