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A Note On Umbilics of a Closed Surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Minoru Kurita*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute Nagoya University
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In this paper we investigate indices of umbilics of a closed surface in the euclidean space. Most part of the discussion is concerned with a symmetric tensor field of degree 2, or rather a direction field, on a Riemannian manifold of dimension 2.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1959

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