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Pseudo-spherical Surfaces of Low Differentiability

Differential Geometry 2013-01-25 v1

Abstract

We continue our investigations into Toda's algorithm [14,3]; a Weierstrass-type representation of Gauss curvature K=1K=-1 surfaces in R3\mathbb{R}^3. We show that C0C^0 input potentials correspond in an appealing way to a special new class of surfaces, with K=1K=-1, which we call C1MC^{1M}. These are surfaces which may not be C2C^2, but whose mixed second partials are continuous and equal. We also extend several results of Hartman-Wintner [5] concerning special coordinate changes which increase differentiability of immersions of K=1K=-1 surfaces. We prove a C1MC^{1M} version of Hilbert's Theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5679,
  title  = {Pseudo-spherical Surfaces of Low Differentiability},
  author = {Josef F. Dorfmeister and Ivan Sterling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5679},
  year   = {2013}
}
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