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Holonomy Groups Of Hypersurfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Shoshichi Kobayashi*
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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The restricted homogeneous holonomy group of an n–dimensional Riemannian manifold is a connected closed subgroup of the proper orthogonal group SO(n) [1]. In this note we shall prove that the restricted homogeneous holonomy group of an n-dimensional compact hypersurface in the Euclidean space is actually the proper orthogonal group SO(n) itself. This gives a necessary (of course, not sufficient) condition for the imbedding of an n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold into the (n +1)–dimensional Euclidean space.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1956

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