A note on surfaces with prescribed oriented Euclidean Gauss map (Q2570961): Difference between revisions

The authors present another proof of a theorem due to Hoffman and Osserman in Euclidean space concerning the determination of a conformal immersion by its Gauss map. Their approach depends on geometric quantities, that is, the hyperbolic Gauss map \(G\) and formulae obtained in hyperbolic space. The idea that the Euclidean Gauss map and the hyperbolic Gauss map with some compatibility relation determine a conformal immersion, proved in a previous paper, leads to the main result (Theorem 1.1, shortly): Let \(E\) be a \(C^3\) function in a simply connected domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb C\) satisfying the compatibility relation mentioned above and \(E_{\overline z}\neq 0\): then there is a conformal immersion \(X\) of \(\Omega\) into \(\mathbb R^3\) with nonvanishing mean curvature \(H\); \(E\) is the oriented Euclidean Gauss map; \(H\) is determined up to a positive multiplicative constant by Kenmotsu's equation; if \(X_1\) and \(X_2\) are two conformal immersions with the same oriented Euclidean Gauss map \(E\) and nonvanishing mean curvature, then \(X_1=X_2\) up to a homothety and Euclidean translation.