Classification of Wintgen ideal surfaces in Euclidean 4-space with equal Gauss and normal curvatures (Q1959094)

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    Classification of Wintgen ideal surfaces in Euclidean 4-space with equal Gauss and normal curvatures
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5796344

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      Classification of Wintgen ideal surfaces in Euclidean 4-space with equal Gauss and normal curvatures (English)
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      6 October 2010
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      Wintgen ideal surfaces in \(\mathbb E^4\) with equal Gauss \(K\) and normal \(K^D\) curvatures, i.e., Wintgen ideal surfaces which satisfy \(|K|=|K^D|\) identically, are completely classified. A surface in \(\mathbb E^4\) is called Wintgen ideal if it satisfies the equality case of the inequality \(K+|K^D|\leq H^2\) [proved by \textit{P. Wintgen} in C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. A 288, 993--995 (1979; Zbl 0421.53003)] identically, where \(H^2\) is the squared mean curvature. Wintgen ideal surfaces in \(\mathbb E^4\) are exactly superminimal surfaces.
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      Gauss curvature
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      normal curvature
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      squared mean curvature
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      Wintgen ideal surface
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      superminimal surface
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      Whitney sphere
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