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Applications of the Gauss mapping for hypersurfaces of the sphere

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  • Riemannian Manifold
  • Sectional Curvature
  • Space Form
  • Isometric Immersion
  • Rigidity Theorem

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Hasanis, T., Koutroufiotis, D. (1985). Applications of the Gauss mapping for hypersurfaces of the sphere. In: Ferus, D., Gardner, R.B., Helgason, S., Simon, U. (eds) Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis 1984. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075090

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