AN ESTIMATE FOR THE GAUSS-KRONECKER CURVATURE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL SMOOTH HYPERSURFACES IN E^4

Year 2014, , 1 - 6, 30.10.2014

Bogdan D. Suceavă

https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.593970

Abstract

 

Keywords

principal curvatures, scalar curvature, shape operator, umbilical hypersurfaces, mean curvature, Gauss-Kronecker curvature

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