Joachimsthal surfaces in \(S^3\) (Q1582964)

A Joachimsthal surface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) was studied by L. Bianchi and others. The present author defines a Joachimsthal surface in \(S^3\) as a surface such that each of its curvature lines from one family lies on a totally geodesic 2-sphere and all these totally geodesic spheres contain a common geodesic in \(S^3\). The author first proves that the only surfaces of constant mean curvature in \(S^3\) that one family of curvature lines lying on totally geodesic spheres are surfaces of rotation. To find the Joachimsthal surfaces in \(S^3\), the author constructs a two-parametric set of trajectories orthogonal to a family of spheres centered on a given axis, and then specify the class of Joachimsthal surfaces in this set.