A Note on Isometric Embeddings of Surfaces of Revolution

DOI10.2307/4145134MaRDI QIDQ4653091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Engman

Publication date 28 February 2005

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0201172

zbMATH Keywords

isometric embedding as a surface of revolution into \(\mathbb{R}^3\)rotational symmetry of a Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

Abstract: In the special case of S^1 invariant metrics on S^2, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of isometric embeddings into the canonical R^3, in other words: a Weyl type theorem with converse.

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