Umbilics of surfaces in the Minkowski 3-space (Q371203)

This paper is related to the Carathéodory conjecture which states that any smooth closed and convex surface in the Euclidean 3-space has at least two umbilic points. The main results of this article are the following two theorems:NEWLINENEWLINETheorem 3.3: Let \(S\) be a closed and convex surface of class \(C^3\) in \({\mathbb{R}}^3_1\). Then \(S\) has at least two umbilic points.NEWLINENEWLINETheorem 3.4: The umbilic points of an ovaloid in \({\mathbb{R}}^3_1\) of class \(C^3\) are all space-like and there are at least two of them.