Finding umbilics on open convex surfaces (Q2280520)
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Finding umbilics on open convex surfaces (English)
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18 December 2019
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Summary: By the Poincaré-Hopf theorem, every ovaloid has at least one umbilic. In this paper we extend this result to the more general case of complete positively curved surfaces in \(\mathbb R^3\) whose shape operator \(A\) satisfies inf \(|A|0\) and sup \(|\nabla A|\infty \).
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existence of umbilics
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Milnor conjecture
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lines of curvature
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index of umbilics
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