Regular homotopy and total curvature II: sphere immersions into 3-space

被引:4
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作者
Ekholm, Tobias [1 ]
机构
[1] USC, Dept Math, Los Angeles, CA 90803 USA
来源
ALGEBRAIC AND GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY | 2006年 / 6卷
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D O I
10.2140/agt.2006.6.493
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
We consider properties of the total curvature functional on the space of 2-sphere immersions into 3-space. We show that the infimum over all sphere eversions of the maximum of the total curvature during an eversion is at most 8 pi and we establish a non-injectivity result for local minima.
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页码:493 / 512
页数:20
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