Rigidity of the canonical isometric imbedding of the quaternion projective plane $P^2(\pmb{H})$

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate isometric immersions of $P^2(\pmb{H})$ into $\pmb{R}^{14}$ and prove that the canonical isometric imbedding $\pmb{f}_0$ of $P^2(\pmb{H})$ into $\pmb{R}^{14}$, which is defined in Kobayashi [11] is rigid in the following strongest sense:Any isometric immersion $\pmb{f}_1$ of a connected open set $U (\subset P^2(\pmb{H}))$ into $\pmb{R}^{14}$ coincides with $\pmb{f}_0$ up to a euclidean transformation of $\pmb{R}^{14}$, i.e., there is a euclidean transformation $a$ of $\pmb{R}^{14}$ satisfying $\pmb{f}_1=a\pmb{f}_0$ on $U$.