XX.—Differential Geometry on Hypersurfaces in a Cayley Space
A seven-dimensional Euclidean space considered as the space of purely imaginary Cayley numbers is called a Cayley space. The six-dimensional sphere in a Cayley space admits an almost complex structure which is not integrable. Moreover the algebraic properties of the imaginary Cayley numbers induce an almost complex structure on any oriented differentiable hypersurface in the Cayley space. The Riemannian metric induced on the hypersurface from the metric of the Cayley space is Hermitian with respect to the almost complex structure.It is proved that the induced Hermitian structure of an oriented hypersurface in the Cayley space is almost Kaehlerian if and only if it is Kaehlerian, that a necessary and sufficient condition for a hypersurface in a Cayley space to be an almost Tachibana space is that the hypersurface be totally umbilical, and that a totally umbilical hypersurface in a Cayley space admits a complex structure when and only when it is totally geodesic.For a hypersurface in the Cayley space with the induced Hermitian structure which is an *O-space it is proved that all the principal curvatures of the hypersurface are constant, and from this is deduced a classification of such *O-spaces.