Semisurfaces and the equations of Codazzi-Mainardi (Q864048)

Let \({\mathcal D}_1\), \({\mathcal D}_2\) be two smooth one-dimensional distributions on a smooth two-dimensional manifold \(M\) with Riemannian metric \(g\), then \((M, g)\) is called a semisurface if \({\mathcal D}_1\) and \({\mathcal D}_2\) are orthogonal to each other at any point of \(M\) with respect to \(g\). If \((M,g,{\mathcal D}_1, {\mathcal D}_2)\) is a semisurface, then a triplet \((g,{\mathcal D}_1,{\mathcal D}_2)\) is called a semisurface structure of \(M\). In the nice paper the author proves the following main-result: Let \((g,{\mathcal D}^+_1,{\mathcal D}^+_2)\) and \((g,{\mathcal D}^\times_1,{\mathcal D}^\times_2)\) be two semisurface structures of \(M\) such that the angle between \({\mathcal D}^\times_1\) and \({\mathcal D}^+_i\) is equal to \(\pi/4\) at any point of \(M\). Suppose that the curvature of \((M, g)\) is nowhere zero. Let \(P^+_1\) be the first Codazzi-Mainardi polynomial of \((M,g,{\mathcal D}^+_1,{\mathcal D}^+_2)\) and \(P^\times_{\text{II}}\) the second Codazzi-Mainardi polynomial of \((M,g,{\mathcal D}^\times_1,{\mathcal D}^\times_2)\). Then \[ P^+_{\text{I},q}(X_1, X_2)= P^\times_{\text{II},q}(Y_1,Y_2) \] holds for \(q\in M\) and \(X_1\), \(X_2\), \(Y_1\) \(Y_2\in\mathbb{R}\) satisfying \(X_1= Y_1+ Y_2\) and \(X_2= Y_1- Y_2\).