On surfaces immersed in Euclidean space R~4 Dedicated to Professor Yang Lo on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

摘要

Let M be a closed oriented surface immersed in R4 . Associated it one has the generalized Gauss map from M into the Grassmann manifold G 4,2 . This note will be concerned with the geometry of the generalized Gauss map by using the moving frame theory and the quaternion interpretation of Plcker coordinates. As one of consequences,we get the celebrated theorem of Chern and Spanier,Hoffman and Osserman,who proved it by quite different methods. At last,we give an explicit construction of a series of immersions of S2 in R4 with any given normal Euler number.