Complete surfaces inE3 with constant mean curvature
Complete surfaces inE3 with constant mean curvature
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E3 中具有恒定平均曲率的完整曲面
DOI:
10.1007/bf02566886
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发表时间:
1966
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
R. Osserman
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作者:
T. Klotz;R. Osserman
In this paper we discuss complete surfaces in E 3 which have constant mean curvature H. Our main result states that a complete, immersed surface with H-cr on which the Gaussian curvature K does not change sign must be a sphere or a right circular cylinder.It has long been conjectured that among compact surfaces only the sphere has constant H. This conjecture was proved by H. HOPF ([7], p. 241) for surfaces of genus zero. A proof for surfaces of arbitrary genus was given by AD ALEXANDROV ([2], or [8], Chapter 7) under the assumption that the surfaces have no self intersections, ie, that they are embedded in E 3. While the theorem stated below is a step in the direction of characterizing all complete surfaces in E a with constant H, it does not give new information about the compact case.