Developments of curves with respect to symmetric tensors and existence of isometric immersions with prescribed second fundamental form
摘要
In this paper, we introduce the notion of developments of curves with respect to symmetric tensors which is a positive codimensional extension of the classical notion of development of curves, and use it to prove the existence of isometric immersions into a general ambient space with prescribed second fundamental form. The existence part of the fundamental theorem for submanifolds is a direct corollary of our result. Our method also provides a geometric construction of such an isometric immersion when it exists.