Developable surfaces with prescribed boundary

Authors Maria Alberich-Carramiñana, Jaume Amorós, Franco Coltraro

Publication date 1 March 2021

Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Applications of differential geometry to engineering (53Z30)

Abstract: It is proved that a generic simple, closed, piecewise regular curve in space can be the boundary of only finitely many developable surfaces with nonvanishing mean curvature. The relevance of this result in the context of the dynamics of developable surfaces is discussed.

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