A lower estimate for the number of zero-torsion points of a space curve.
We consider the Monge-Ampère-type equation , where is the Schouten tensor of a conformally related metric and is a suitably chosen constant. When the scalar curvature is non-positive we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions. When the scalar curvature is positive and the first Betti number of the manifold is non-zero we also establish existence. Moreover, by adapting a construction of Schoen, we show that solutions are in general not unique.
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...
Let M be a closed connected surface in with positive Gaussian curvature K and let be the curvature of its second fundamental form. It is shown that M is a sphere if , for some constants c and r, where H is the mean curvature of M.
We construct a non-homogeneous contact projective structure which is symmetric from the point of view of parabolic geometries.