A short proof of a theorem by Hopf

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2015.07.007MaRDI QIDQ530366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Cibotaru

Publication date 29 July 2016

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07018

zbMATH Keywords

degree of Gauss map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Degree, winding number (55M25)

Abstract: A proof based on the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem is given to Hopf Theorem concerning the degree of the Gauss map of a hypersurface in $mathbb{R}^n$.

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• A short self-contained proof of the Commutation Theorem
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3116360 (Why is no real title available?)
• An elementary proof of the Birkhoff-Hopf theorem

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