On the umbilic set of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional space forms

DOI10.1016/J.BULSCI.2020.102917MaRDI QIDQ2215840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Catino, Alberto Roncoroni, Luigi Vezzoni

Publication date 14 December 2020

Published in Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08145

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvatureimmersed surfacesHopf theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove that under some assumptions on the mean curvature the set of umbilical points of an immersed surface in a $3$-dimensional space form has positive measure. In case of an immersed sphere our result can be seen as a generalization of the celebrated Hopf theorem.

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