On isolated umbilic points (Q2227308)

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      On isolated umbilic points (English)
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      15 February 2021
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      In this nice paper under review, the author proves the failure of both the classical Carathéodory Conjecture and Hamburger's index bound on umbilic points when the metric is not flat, even for metrics arbitrarily close to Euclidean.
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      Carathéodory conjecture
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      second fundamental form
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      Hamburger's local index bound
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      convex spheres
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      single umbilic point
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