Fundamental Equations for Submanifolds

Abstract

We notice that in the embedding of submanifolds, the fundamental equations are only the Gauss equations for the tangent vectors while the Weingarten equations for the normal equations can essentially be determined by them, and furthermore that the integrability condition of the Weingarten equations, the Ricci equations, are consitently satisfied under that of the Gauss equations. Therefore, the Weingarten and the Ricci equations do not describe essentially independent conditions for embedding. We demonstrate these facts by explicitly constructing the normal vectors from the tangent vectors.