Immersions with fractal set of points of zero Gauss-Kronecker curvature

DOI10.1007/S00574-004-0019-6MaRDI QIDQ2576706zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlos Matheus, A. Arbieto

Publication date 14 December 2005

Published in Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304153

zbMATH Keywords

Cantor setsfinite geometrical typeimmersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We construct, for any ``good Cantor set $F$ of $S^{n-1}$, an immersion of the sphere $S^n$ with set of points of zero Gauss-Kronecker curvature equal to $Fimes{D}^1$, where $D^1$ is the 1-dimensional disk. In particular these examples show that the theorem of Matheus-Oliveira strictly extends two results by do Carmo-Elbert and Barbosa-Fukuoka-Mercuri.

Review text

Let \(M^n\) be an orientable hypersurface of \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) and let \(N: M^n\to S^n\) be the associated Gauss map in the given orientation. Then, \(A= dN\) is selfadjoint and its eigenvalues are the principal curvatures, \(H_n= \text{det}(dN)\) is the Gauss-Kronecker curvature and \(\text{rank}(N)= \min_{p\in M}(\text{rank\,}d_pN)\). A compact set \(F\subset S^n\) is called a good Cantor set if \(S^n- F= \bigcup_{i\in M}U_i\) is the disjoint union of open balls \(U_i\) in \(S^n\) of radius bounded by a small constant. The authors main theorem is: For any \(F\subset S^{n-1}\) a good Cantor set, there are immersions \(x: S^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) such that \(\text{rank}(x)= n-1\). The Gauss-Kronecker curvature is nonnegative and \(\{p\in S^n: H_n(p)= 0\}= F\times D^1\), where \(D^1\) is the one-dimensional disk.

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