On a Carathéodory's conjecture on umbilics: representing ovaloids

zbMath0897.53003MaRDI QIDQ1378845

J. Ning

Publication date: 20 October 1998

Published in: Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=RSMUP_1997__98__213_0

zbMATH Keywords

umbilics; stereographic projection; support function; Carathéodory's conjecture; curvature lines; Bonnet chart; representations of ovaloids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A05: Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces

52A15: Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces)

53C45: Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov)

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