Degree of the Gauss map and curvature integrals for closed hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S00025-018-0832-7MaRDI QIDQ722486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabiano G. B. Brito, Icaro Gonçalves

Publication date 23 July 2018

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04670

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss maptopological invariantsfoliationsunit vector fieldsEuclidean hypersurfacesnormal degree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Degree theory for nonlinear operators (47H11) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Abstract: Given a unit vector field on a closed Euclidean hypersurface, we define a map from the hypersurface to a sphere in the Euclidean space. This application allows us to exhibit a list of topological invariants which combines the second fundamental form of the hypersurface and the vector field itself. We show how these invariants can be used as obstructions to certain codimension one foliations.

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