0-tight surfaces with boundary and the total curvature of curves in surfaces
A classical result of A. D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth -dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in , and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of symmetry of in a hyperplane in case satisfies: for any two points , on , with , the mean curvature at the first is not greater than that at the second. Symmetry need not always hold, but in this paper, we establish it under some additional condition for . Some variations...
Based on the E. Study’s map, a new approach describing instantaneous line congruence during the motion of the Darboux frame on a regular non-spherical and non-developable surface, whose parametric curves are lines of curvature, is proposed. Afterward, the pitch of general line congruence is developed and used for deriving necessary and sufficient condition for instantaneous line congruence to be normal. In terms of this, the derived line congruences and their differential geometric invariants were...