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Bonnet's type theorems in the relative differential geometry of the 4-dimensional space

Differential Geometry 2017-10-20 v4

Abstract

We deal with hypersurfaces in the framework of the relative differential geometry in R4\mathbb{R}^4. We consider a hypersurface Φ\varPhi in R4\mathbb{R}^4 with position vector field \vectx\vect{x} which is relatively normalized by a relative normalization \vecty\vect{y}. Then \vecty\vect{y} is also a relative normalization of every member of the one-parameter family F\mathcal{F} of hypersurfaces Φμ\varPhi_\mu with position vector field \vectxμ=\vectx+μ\vecty\vect{x}_\mu = \vect{x} + \mu \, \vect{y}, where μ\mu is a real constant. We call every hypersurface ΦμF\varPhi_\mu \in \mathcal{F} relatively parallel to Φ\varPhi. This consideration includes both Euclidean and Blaschke hypersurfaces of the affine differential geometry. In this paper we express the relative mean curvature's functions of a hypersurface Φμ\varPhi_\mu relatively parallel to Φ\varPhi by means of the ones of Φ\varPhi and the "relative distance" μ\mu. Then we prove several Bonnet's type theorems. More precisely, we show that if two relative mean curvature's functions of Φ\varPhi are constant, then there exists at least one relatively parallel hypersurface with a constant relative mean curvature's function.

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@article{arxiv.1707.07549,
  title  = {Bonnet's type theorems in the relative differential geometry of the 4-dimensional space},
  author = {Stylianos Stamatakis and Ioannis Kaffas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07549},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages, Key Words: relative and equiaffine differential geometry, hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space, Blaschke hypersurfaces in affine differential geometry, Peterson correspondence, relative mean curvature functions, Bonnet's Theorems