Structurally stable configurations of lines of mean curvature and umbilic points on surfaces immersed in R^3

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_45201_08MaRDI QIDQ1348599zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ronaldo A. Garcia, Jorge Sotomayor

Publication date 16 February 2003

Published in Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/41438

zbMATH Keywords

lines of mean curvaturemean curvature configurationumbilic point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

Review text

The present paper concerns the mean curvature configurations associated to immersions of an oriented surface into \(\mathbb{R}^3\), i.e. pairs of orthogonal foliations whose singularities and leaves are given respectively by the umbilic points and the lines of normal mean curvature of the immersion. These lines are characterized by the condition that along them the immersions bend according to their normal mean curvature. Using the formal analogy between mean and principal configurations, the authors study the stable and generic cases of umbilic points and mean curvature cycles, providing in this way sufficient conditions for mean curvature structural stability. Moreover, examples of mean curvature configurations on the ellipsoid and torus are given.

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