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This paper investigates the geometry and singularities of parallel surfaces of cuspidal cross caps, the fundamental non-front frontal singularities. We establish a criterion for the degeneracy of the distance squared function in terms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Atsuki Hiramatsu

In this paper, close surfaces are considered in 3-dimensional harmonic conformally flat space in point of the variation. It is shown that if the conformal vector field be tangent to surface and the sign of the mean curvature does not change…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Najma mosadegh , Esmaiel Abedi

The geometry of closed surfaces equipped with a Euclidean metric with finitely many conical points of arbitrary angle is studied. The main result is that the set of closed geodesics is dense in the space of geodesics.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Charalampos Charitos , Ioannis Papadoperakis , Georgios Tsapogas

We prove that singular minimal surfaces with constant Gauss curvature are planes, spheres and cylindrical surfaces. We also classify all singular minimal surfaces with a constant principal curvature and singular minimal surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Rafael López

The {\em focal curve} of an immersed smooth curve $\gamma:s\mapsto \gamma(s)$, in Euclidean space $\R^{m+1}$, consists of the centres of its osculating hyperspheres. The focal curve may be parametrised in terms of the Frenet frame of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

We study surfaces in $\R^4$ whose tangent spaces have constant principal angles with respect to a plane. Using a PDE we prove the existence of surfaces with arbitrary constant principal angles. The existence of such surfaces turns out to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-11 Pierre Bayard , Antonio J. Di Scala , Osvaldo Osuna-Castro , Gabriel Ruiz-Hernandez

Stable fold maps are fundamental tools in a generalization of the theory of Morse functions on smooth manifolds and its application to studies of topological properties of smooth manifolds. Round fold maps were introduced as stable fold…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Naoki Kitazawa

A submanifold is said to be tangentially biharmonic if the bitension field of the isometric immersion that defines the submanifold has vanishing tangential component. The purpose of this paper is to prove that a surface in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Toru Sasahara

This is a survey article on recognition problem of frontal singularities. We specify geometrically several frontal singularities and then we solve the recognition problem of such singularities, giving explicit normal forms. We combine the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Goo Ishikawa

We study singularities of Gauss maps of fronts and give characterizations of types of singularities of Gauss maps by geometric properties of fronts which are related to behavior of bounded principal curvatures. Moreover, we investigate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Keisuke Teramoto

Using Green's theorem we reduce the variation of the total mean curvature of a smooth surface in the Euclidean 3-space to a line integral of a special vector field and obtain the following well-known theorem as an immediate consequence: the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-10 Victor Alexandrov

We give the complete solution to the local diffeomorphism classification problem of generic singularities which appear in tangent surfaces, in as wider situations as possible. We interpret tangent geodesics as tangent lines whenever a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Goo Ishikawa , Tatsuya Yamashita

Our goal is to convince the readers that the theory of complex normal surface singularities can be a powerful tool in the study of numerical semigroups, and, in the same time, a very rich source of interesting affine and numerical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Tamás László , András Némethi

Consider the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ endowed with a canonical semi-symmetric non-metric connection determined by a vector field $\mathsf{C}\in\mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. We study surfaces when the sectional curvature with respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López , Adela Mihai

We study the problem of isometrically embedding a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean three-space. It is shown that if Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two smooth curves tangent at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Tsung-Yin Lin

In this paper, we study the smooth isometric immersion of a complete, simply connected surface with a negative Gauss curvature into the three-dimensional Euclidean space. A fundamental and longstanding problem is to find a sufficient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Wentao Cao , Qing Han , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang

We study the totally null surfaces of the neutral Kaehler metric on certain 4-manifolds. The tangent spaces of totally null surfaces are either self-dual ($\alpha$-planes) or anti-self-dual ($\beta$-planes) and so we consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Nikos Georgiou , Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

We investigate singularities of all parallel surfaces to a given regular surface. In generic context, the types of singularities of parallel surfaces are cuspidal edge, swallowtail, cuspidal lips, cuspidal beaks, cuspidal butterfly and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-19 Toshizumi Fukui , Masaru Hasegawa

Normal surface theory, a tool to represent surfaces in a triangulated 3-manifold combinatorially, is ubiquitous in computational 3-manifold theory. In this paper, we investigate a relaxed notion of normal surfaces where we remove the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Benjamin A. Burton , Éric Colin de Verdière , Arnaud de Mesmay

In this paper we introduce the notion of the singular evolutoid set which is the set of all singular points of all evolutoids of a fixed smooth planar curve with at most cusp singularities. By the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for Coherent Tangent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-09 M. Zwierzyński