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do Carmo, M.P. (1989). Hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature. In: Carreras, F.J., Gil-Medrano, O., Naveira, A.M. (eds) Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0086419

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