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Taut embeddings and Dupin hypersurfaces

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  • Principal Curvature
  • Morse Function
  • Symmetric Bilinear Form
  • Isoparametric Hypersurface
  • Veronese Surface

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Miyaoka, R. (1984). Taut embeddings and Dupin hypersurfaces. In: Kenmotsu, K. (eds) Differential Geometry of Submanifolds. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1090. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101563

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