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Wintgen ideal submanifolds in space forms are those ones attaining equality pointwise in the so-called DDVV inequality which relates the scalar curvature, the mean curvature and the scalar normal curvature. As conformal invariant objects, they are suitable to study in the framework of Möbius geometry. This paper continues our previous work in this program, showing that Wintgen ideal submanifolds can be divided into three classes: the reducible ones, the irreducible minimal ones in space forms (up to Möbius transformations), and the generic (irreducible) ones. The reducible Wintgen ideal submanifolds have a specific low-dimensional integrable distribution, which allows us to get the most general reduction theorem, saying that they are Möbius equivalent to cones, cylinders, or rotational surfaces generated by minimal Wintgen ideal submanifolds in lower-dimensional space forms.
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Xie, Z., Li, T., Ma, X. et al. Wintgen ideal submanifolds: reduction theorems and a coarse classification. Ann Glob Anal Geom 53, 377–403 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-017-9581-1
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