Classification of Certain Rational Isoparametric Functions on Damek-Ricci Spaces

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Main Authors: Csikós, Balázs, Horváth, Márton
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author Csikós, Balázs
Horváth, Márton
author_facet Csikós, Balázs
Horváth, Márton
contents We classify isoparametric functions on Damek-Ricci spaces which can be written in terms of the standard coordinates $(v,z,t)$ on the half-space model as a polynomial function divided by $t$. Regular level sets of the functions in our classification encompass almost all previously known examples of isoparametric hypersufaces in Damek-Ricci space and also yield new ones. For the new examples, the focal varieties are determined and the mean curvatures of the regular level sets are expressed as a function of the distance from the focal variety. We also study the exceptional case of tubes about $\mathbb R\mathbf H^k$ in $\mathbb C\mathbf H^k$, which are isoparametric, but cannot be obtained as the level sets of any function in our classification. We show that these tubes are level sets of a polynomial function divided by $t^2$, and that analogous functions on Damek-Ricci spaces can be isoparametric only in the case of $\mathbb C\mathbf H^k$.
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spellingShingle Classification of Certain Rational Isoparametric Functions on Damek-Ricci Spaces
Csikós, Balázs
Horváth, Márton
Differential Geometry
Primary 53C25, Secondary 53C40, 53C30
We classify isoparametric functions on Damek-Ricci spaces which can be written in terms of the standard coordinates $(v,z,t)$ on the half-space model as a polynomial function divided by $t$. Regular level sets of the functions in our classification encompass almost all previously known examples of isoparametric hypersufaces in Damek-Ricci space and also yield new ones. For the new examples, the focal varieties are determined and the mean curvatures of the regular level sets are expressed as a function of the distance from the focal variety. We also study the exceptional case of tubes about $\mathbb R\mathbf H^k$ in $\mathbb C\mathbf H^k$, which are isoparametric, but cannot be obtained as the level sets of any function in our classification. We show that these tubes are level sets of a polynomial function divided by $t^2$, and that analogous functions on Damek-Ricci spaces can be isoparametric only in the case of $\mathbb C\mathbf H^k$.
title Classification of Certain Rational Isoparametric Functions on Damek-Ricci Spaces
topic Differential Geometry
Primary 53C25, Secondary 53C40, 53C30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10608