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Classifications of Dupin Hypersurfaces in Lie Sphere Geometry

Differential Geometry 2022-10-27 v2

Abstract

This is a survey of local and global classification results concerning Dupin hypersurfaces in SnS^n (or Rn{\bf R}^n) that have been obtained in the context of Lie sphere geometry. The emphasis is on results that relate Dupin hypersurfaces to isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. Along with these classification results, many important concepts from Lie sphere geometry, such as curvature spheres, Lie curvatures, and Legendre lifts of submanifolds of SnS^n (or Rn{\bf R}^n), are described in detail. The paper also contains several important constructions of Dupin hypersurfaces with certain special properties.

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@article{arxiv.2210.10569,
  title  = {Classifications of Dupin Hypersurfaces in Lie Sphere Geometry},
  author = {Thomas E. Cecil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10569},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

54 pages, 0 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2011.11432; text overlap with arXiv:1607.08153 by other authors