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Complete flat fronts as hypersurfaces in Euclidean space

Differential Geometry 2017-09-08 v1

Abstract

By Hartman--Nirenberg's theorem, any complete flat hypersurface in Euclidean space must be a cylinder over a plane curve. However, if we admit some singularities, there are many non-trivial examples. Flat fronts are flat hypersurfaces with admissible singularities. Murata--Umehara gave a representation formula for complete flat fronts with non-empty singular set in Euclidean 33-space, and proved the four vertex type theorem. In this paper, we prove that, unlike the case of n=2n=2, there do not exist any complete flat fronts with non-empty singular set in Euclidean (n+1)(n+1)-space (n3)(n\geq 3).

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@article{arxiv.1709.02178,
  title  = {Complete flat fronts as hypersurfaces in Euclidean space},
  author = {Atsufumi Honda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02178},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages

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