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Generalised Umbilics on Embedded Spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. L. Noakes*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Western Australia Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia
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Abstract

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We study two kinds of generalized umbilics on smoothly embedded n-manifolds in ℝn+1. A sectional umbilic occurs where two of the principal curvatures are equal, and a split sectional umbilic is a more general notion.

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1991

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