In this article, the totally geodesic submanifolds in the complex 2Grassmannian G2(C) and in the quaternionic 2-Grassmannian G2(H) are classified. It turns out that for both of these spaces, the earlier classification of maximal totally geodesic submanifolds in Riemannian symmetric spaces of rank 2 published by Chen and Nagano (1978) is incomplete. For example, G2(H) with n ≥ 5 contains totally...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of a semi-slant pseudoRiemannian submersion from an indefinite almost contact 3-structure manifold onto a pseudo-Riemannian manifold. We investigate the geometry of foliations determined by horizontal and vertical distributions and provide a non-trivial example. We also find a necessary and sufficient condition for a semi-slant submersion to be totally geo...

On extrinsic geometry of unit normal vector fields of Riemannian hyperfoliations. Abstract We consider a unit normal vector field of (local) hyperfoliation on a given Riemannian manifold as a submanifold in the unit tangent bundle with Sasaki metric. We give an explicit expression of the second fundamental form for this submanifold and a rather simple condition its totally geodesic property in ...

In this paper, we construct families of nonisometric hyperbolic orbifolds that contain the same isometry classes of nonflat totally geodesic subspaces. The main tool is a variant of the well-known Sunada method for constructing length-isospectral Riemannian manifolds that handles totally geodesic submanifolds of multiple codimensions simultaneously.