Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access published online on September 21, 2009
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, doi:10.1112/blms/bdp081
© 2009 London Mathematical Society
Maximal totally complex submanifolds of 
n: homogeneity and normal holonomy
Dipartimento di Matematica Sapienza
Università di Roma
P.le Aldo Moro 2
00185 Roma
Italy
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Bologna
Piazza di Porta S. Donato 5
40126 Bologna
Italy
gori@math.unifi.it
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Per l'Architettura
Università di Firenze
Piazza Ghiberti 27, 50122 Firenze
Italy
podesta@math.unifi.it
Received 1 October 2008.
We prove that a maximal totally complex submanifold N2n of the quaternionic projective space 
n (n
2) is a parallel submanifold, provided that one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) N is the orbit of a compact Lie group of isometries; (2) the restricted normal holonomy is a proper subgroup of U(n).
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 53C26, 53C40, 53C28, 57S15, 53C29.