• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.6
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• pp.1525-1537
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• 2019

Let ${\tilde{M}}$ be a Riemannian manifold equipped with a concircular vector field ${\tilde{X}}$ and M a submanifold (with its induced metric) of ${\tilde{M}}$. Denote by X the restriction of ${\tilde{X}}$ on M and by $X^T$ the tangential component of X, called the canonical field of M. In this article we study submanifolds of ${\tilde{M}}$ whose canonical field $X^T$ is also concircular. Several characterizations and classification results in this respect are obtained.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.1823-1834
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• 2018

The position vector field x is the most elementary and natural geometric object on a Euclidean submanifold M. The position vector field plays very important roles in mathematics as well as in physics. Similarly, the tangential component $x^T$ of the position vector field is the most natural vector field tangent to the Euclidean submanifold M. We simply call the vector field $x^T$ the canonical vector field of the Euclidean submanifold M. In earlier articles [4,5,9,11,12], we investigated Euclidean submanifolds whose canonical vector fields are concurrent, concircular, torse-forming, conservative or incompressible. In this article we study Euclidean submanifolds with conformal canonical vector field. In particular, we characterize such submanifolds. Several applications are also given. In the last section we present three global results on complete Euclidean submanifolds with conformal canonical vector field.