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On an Algebro-Geometric Approach to Ribaucour Transformations and Bianchi Cubes

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In this paper, we develop an algebro-geometric approach to Ribaucour transformations and Bianchi cubes of orthogonal nets. Explicit transformations of algebro-geometric data are described that lead to the Ribaucour transformations and Bianchi cubes of algebro-geometric orthogonal nets.

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Acknowledgments

The author wishes to express gratitude to his research supervisor Professor O. I. Mokhov for the problem statement, important comments, and interest in the research.

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This work was completed on the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Moscow State University and supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant 20-11-20214.

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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, 2022, Vol. 111, pp. 717–725 https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm13248.

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Glukhov, E.V. On an Algebro-Geometric Approach to Ribaucour Transformations and Bianchi Cubes. Math Notes 111, 722–728 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434622050054

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