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Dual pairs of generic conformally flat hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2025-05-14 v2

Abstract

We study generic conformally flat (local-)hypersurfaces in the Euclidean 4-space R4\mathbb{R}^4. Such a hypersurface ff has the dual (hypersurface) ff^* in R4\mathbb{R}^4, which is also generic and conformally flat. By repeating the composite action of inversion and the dual transformation on a hypersurface ff, infinitely many non-equivalent generic conformally flat hypersurfaces are obtained from a single ff. The dual ff^* is defined by the total differential of the embedding expressed in terms of the original ff. However, the exact formula in R4\mathbb{R}^4 of ff^* is not obvious, because of difficulty of integrating the total differential. Therefore, for the study of generic conformally flat hypersurfaces it is important to clarify in some way an explicit correspondence between the dual pair in R4\mathbb{R}^4. The aim of this paper is to clarify that correspondence between the dual pair ff and ff^*, which we do by making approximate discrete hypersurfaces of ff^* for all positive integers nn as maps from 33-dimensional nets in ff to R4\mathbb{R}^4. The approximations are constructed from the dual invariants of a generic conformally flat hypersurface ff, of which dual invariants are defined as the maps from ff to R4\mathbb{R}^4, and as nn tends to \infty, the approximations induce maps between the corresponding curvature surfaces of ff and ff^*.

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@article{arxiv.2503.19417,
  title  = {Dual pairs of generic conformally flat hypersurfaces},
  author = {Yoshihiko Suyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19417},
  year   = {2025}
}