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In this paper we study, using moving frames, conformal minimal two-spheres S 2 immersed into a complex hyperquadric Q n equipped with the induced Fubini-Study metric from a complex projective n+1-space CP n+1. Two associated functions τ X and τ Y are introduced to classify the problem into several cases. It is proved that τ X or τ Y must be identically zero if f: S 2 → Q n is a conformal minimal immersion. Both the Gaussian curvature K and the Kähler angle θ are constant if the conformal immersion is totally geodesic. It is also shown that the conformal minimal immersion is totally geodesic holomorphic or antiholomorphic if K = 4. Excluding the case K = 4, conformal minimal immersion f: S 2 → Q 2 with Gaussian curvature K ⩾ 2 must be totally geodesic with (K, θ) ∈ {(2, 0), (2, 2/π), (2, π)}.
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Jiao, X., Wang, J. Conformal minimal two-spheres in Q n . Sci. China Math. 54, 817–830 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-011-4179-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-011-4179-8