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A loop group method for Demoulin surfaces in the 3-dimensional real projective space

Differential Geometry 2013-04-15 v2

Abstract

For a surface in the 3-dimensional real projective space, we define a Gauss map, which is a quadric in R4\mathbb R^{4} and called the first-order Gauss map. It will be shown that the surface is a Demoulin surface if and only if the first-order Gauss map is conformal, and the surface is a projective minimal coincidence surface or a Demoulin surface if and only if the first-order Gauss map is harmonic. Moreover for a Demoulin surface, it will be shown that the first-order Gauss map can be obtained by the natural projection of the Lorentz primitive map into a 6-symmetric space. We also characterize Demoulin surfaces via a family of flat connections on the trivial bundle \D×\SL\D \times \SL over a simply connected domain D\mathbb{D} in the Euclidean 2-plane.

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@article{arxiv.1301.6325,
  title  = {A loop group method for Demoulin surfaces in the 3-dimensional real projective space},
  author = {Shimpei Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6325},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

11 pages, v2. We concentrate the case of Demoulin surfaces and fix the definition of Lorentz primitive map

R2 v1 2026-06-21T23:15:55.096Z