A compact minimal shadow boundary in Euclidean space is totally geodesic

DOI10.1007/S00605-011-0352-YzbMath1261.53040OpenAlexW1983443837MaRDI QIDQ1762471

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

umbilic pointprincipal directionshadow boundarygeodesic surface curve

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)

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