A compact minimal shadow boundary in Euclidean space is totally geodesic

DOI10.1007/S00605-011-0352-YMaRDI QIDQ1762471zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianqiang Yang

Publication date 27 November 2012

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://porto.polito.it/2486984/

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic surface curveprincipal directionshadow boundaryumbilic point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Review text

The main issue of this paper is the theorem, that the shadow boundary of a compact minimal sub-manifold of an immersed surface in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) is totally geodesic if it is a compact minimal sub-manifold. Additionally, the relationship between the tangent vector of the shadow boundary and the principal directions of the shape operator is investigated. This way umbilic points can easily be detected via the shadow boundaries through such points: In these cases the shadow boundaries run orthogonally to the respective direction of the light ray. This statement holds at least for points with non-vanishing Gauss-Kronecker curvature. Generally, they prove that the shadow boundary -- under the aforementioned preliminaries -- contains at least two principal directions.

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