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The Morse Index of Wente Tori

Differential Geometry 2008-04-29 v1

Abstract

We find various lower and upper bounds for the index of Wente tori that contain a continuous family of planar principal curves. We then prove a result that gives an algorithm for computing the index sharply.

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@article{arxiv.0804.4193,
  title  = {The Morse Index of Wente Tori},
  author = {Wayne Rossman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4193},
  year   = {2008}
}
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