Isometric realization of cross caps as formal power series and its applications

DOI10.14492/HOKMJ/1550480642MaRDI QIDQ2631782zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Atsufumi Honda, Kosuke Naokawa, Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada

Publication date 16 May 2019

Published in Hokkaido Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06265, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.hokmj/1550480642

zbMATH Keywords

cross capintrinsic invariantisometric deformationpositive semi-definite metricWhitney umbrella

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: Two cross caps in Euclidean $3$-space are said to be formally isometric if their Taylor expansions of the first fundamental forms coincide by taking a suitable local coordinate system. For a given $C^{i}nfty$ cross cap $f$, we give a method to find all cross caps which are formally isometric to $f$. As an application, we give a countable family of intrinsic invariants of cross caps which recognizes formal isometry classes completely.

Review text

Singular points of a semi-definite metric are the points where the metric is not positive definite. An interesting class of semi-definite metrics on surfaces is called Whitney metrics. Pullback metrics from the singular surface called cross-cap are typical examples of Whitney metrics. A key question of the area is whether each singular point of a Whitney metric can be realized locally as a cross cap. The paper under review, while it does not answer this question, studies the ``formal power series approximation of this problem. The authors construct all isometric realizations of a given Whitney metric germ as a formal power series. The paper presents the coefficients of this formal power series \(\{\alpha_{i,j}\}_{i+j\geq 2}\) as a complete invariant for the infinitesimal isometry class of a real analytic Whitney metric germ.

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