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.

Review text

Main result of the paper: Let \((M, g)\) be a \(S^1\)-invariant Riemannian manifold, diffeomorphic to \(S^2\) with the fixed points \(np\) and \(sp\) under the \(S^1\)-action and with the Gauss curvature \(K\). Then \((M, g)\) may be isometrically \({\mathcal C}^1\)-embedded into the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^3\) as surface of revolution if and only if \(\int_\Omega K\geq 0\) for all ``polar caps \(\Omega\), i.e. geodesic discs centered at \(np\) or \(sp\). An equivalent condition is \(|\oint_{\partial\Omega} k_g|\leq 2\pi\) for all \(\Omega\) (\(k_g\) geodesic curvature of \(\partial\Omega\)).

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