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Isothermic and S-Willmore Surfaces as Solutions to Blaschke's Problem

Differential Geometry 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We consider the generalization of classical Blaschke's Problem to higher codimension case, characterizing Darboux pair of isothermic surfaces and dual S-Willmore surfaces as the only non-trivial surface pairs that envelop a 2-sphere congruence and conformally correspond to each other. When the sphere congruence is the mean curvature spheres of one envelop surface, it must be a cmc-1 surface in hyperbolic 3-space, or a S-Willmore surface. A study of conformally immersed surface pairs is indicated with discussion on the geometric meaning of new invariants.

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@article{arxiv.math/0405085,
  title  = {Isothermic and S-Willmore Surfaces as Solutions to Blaschke's Problem},
  author = {Xiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0405085},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages

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