Flat approximations of hypersurfaces along curves

DOI10.1007/S00229-018-1072-6MaRDI QIDQ2326784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matteo Raffaelli, Irina Markina

Publication date 10 October 2019

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00826

zbMATH Keywords

Björling problemdevelopable surfaceflat surfacenormal derivativeruled surfacetorse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

Abstract: Given a smooth curve $gamma$ in some $m$-dimensional surface $M$ in $mathbb{R}^{m+1}$, we study existence and uniqueness of a flat surface $H$ having the same field of normal vectors as $M$ along $gamma$, which we call a flat approximation of $M$ along $gamma$. In particular, the well-known characterisation of flat surfaces as torses (ruled surfaces with tangent plane stable along the rulings) allows us to give an explicit parametric construction of such approximation.

Review text

It is well known that for a surface \(M\) in Euclidean three-space and a smooth curve \(\gamma\) on \(M\) there exists, under mild regularity assumptions, a unique developable surface through \(\gamma\) that shares the tangent planes along \(\gamma\) with \(M\). In this paper, the authors generalize this existence and uniqueness result to flat approximations of hypersurfaces \(M\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{m+1}\) along a surface curve \(\gamma\). More precisely, the approximating hypersurface \(H\) is supposed to admit a foliation by open subsets of \((m-1)\)-dimensional planes with the same tangent space in all of their points (``flat or locally isometric to Euclidean space) and to share tangent hyperplanes along \(\gamma\) with \(M\). The curve \(\gamma\) should never be parallel to an asymptotic direction of \(M\). Uniqueness is to be understood in the sense that two flat approximations \(H_1\), \(H_2\) coincide on an open subset through \(\gamma\).

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