Explicit examples to the H-problem of Heinz Hopf (Q5899790): Difference between revisions

The author determines explicitly (by Jacobi elliptic functions) all immersions of a torus into \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) with one family of curvature lines plane and the other (then necessarily) spherical. There are a countable set of nonisomorphic real analytic immersions. The paper is a beautiful example of practical computation in three-dimensional differential geometry, with well drawn figures. It should be pointed out that all surfaces obtained by the author have constant mean curvature. The tori so defined are the first known surfaces of constant mean curvature and genus \(>0\). [This review replaces another version (see Zbl 0615.53015) acknowledging an addendum submitted by the reviewer.]