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On in-plane drill rotations for Cosserat surfaces

Differential Geometry 2021-08-17 v2

Abstract

We show under some natural smoothness assumptions that pure in-plane drill rotations as deformation mappings of a C2C^2-smooth regular shell surface to another one parametrized over the same domain are impossible provided that the rotations are fixed at a portion of the boundary. Put otherwise, if the tangent vectors of the new surface are obtained locally by only rotating the given tangent vectors, and if these rotations have a rotation axis which coincides everywhere with the normal of the initial surface, then the two surfaces are equal provided they coincide at a portion of the boundary. In the language of differential geometry of surfaces we show that any isometry which leaves normals invariant and which coincides with the given surface at a portion of the boundary, is the identity mapping.

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@article{arxiv.2102.10356,
  title  = {On in-plane drill rotations for Cosserat surfaces},
  author = {Maryam Mohammadi Saem and Peter Lewintan and Patrizio Neff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10356},
  year   = {2021}
}
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