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Demoulin surfaces in the real projective 3-space are investigated. Our result enables us to establish a generalized Weierstrass type representation for definite Demoulin surfaces by virtue of primitive maps into a certain semi-Riemannian 6-symmetric space.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos. JP18K03265 and JP19K03461).
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Inoguchi, Ji., Kobayashi, S. The Gauss maps of Demoulin surfaces with conformal coordinates. Sci. China Math. 64, 1479–1492 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-020-1738-0
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