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Compatibility of Gauss maps with metrics

Differential Geometry 2013-01-22 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions on a smooth local map of a Riemannian manifold MmM^m into the sphere SmS^m to be the Gauss map of an isometric immersion u:MmRnu:M^m \to R^n, n=m+1n=m+1. We briefly discuss the case of general nn as well

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@article{arxiv.0903.3225,
  title  = {Compatibility of Gauss maps with metrics},
  author = {J. Eschenburg and B. S. Kruglikov and V. S. Matveev and R. Tribuzy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3225},
  year   = {2013}
}

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14 pages, no figures

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