(1) Department of Mathematics, Nankai University, 300071 Tianjin, China;(2) Department of Mathematics, Hebei University, 071002 Baoding, China
Abstract:
A necessary and sufficient condition for a symmetric submanifold to be minimal in its ambient compact Riemannian symmetric space is given. By this condition a complete classification of nonminimal symmetric submanifolds in compact symmetric spaces is obtained.