On isolated umbilic points

DOI10.4310/CAG.2020.V28.N8.A8zbMATH Open1465.53070arXiv1812.03562MaRDI QIDQ2227308FDOQ2227308

Authors: Brendan Guilfoyle 

Publication date: 15 February 2021

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Counter-examples to the famous conjecture of Caratheodory, as well as the bound on umbilic index proposed by Hamburger, are constructed with respect to Riemannian metrics that are arbitrarily close to the flat metric on Euclidean 3-space. In particular, Riemannian metrics with a smooth strictly convex 2-sphere containing a single umbilic point are constructed explicitly, in contradiction with any direct extension of Caratheodory's conjecture. Additionally, a Riemannian metric with an embedded surface containing an isolated umbilic point of any index is presented, violating Hamburger's umbilic index bound. In both cases, it is shown that the metric can be made arbitrarily close to the flat metric. A short video explaining the motivation and results of this paper can be found at the following link: https://youtu.be/Wjja4PcMtxc

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03562

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zbMATH Keywords

second fundamental form[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Carath%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDodory+conjecture&go=Go Carath��odory conjecture]convex spheresHamburger's local index boundsingle umbilic point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40)

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