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Rotationally invariant constant Gauss curvature surfaces in Berger spheres

Differential Geometry 2019-12-06 v1

Abstract

We give a full classification of complete rotationally invariant surfaces with constant Gauss curvature in Berger spheres: they are either Clifford tori, which are flat, or spheres of Gauss curvature KK0K \geq K_0 for a positive constant K0K_0, which we determine explicitly and depends on the geometry of the ambient Berger sphere. For values of K0KKPK_0 \leq K \leq K_P, for a specific constant KPK_P, it was not known until now whether complete constant Gauss curvature KK surfaces existed in Berger spheres, so our classification provides the first examples. For K>KPK > K_P, we prove that the rotationally invariant spheres from our classification are the only topological spheres with constant Gauss curvature in Berger spheres.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02681,
  title  = {Rotationally invariant constant Gauss curvature surfaces in Berger spheres},
  author = {Francisco Torralbo and Joeri Van der Veken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02681},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures