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On the Gauss map of complete surfaces of constant mean curvature in R3 and R4

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  1. Department of Mathematics GRL, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, MA

    D. A. Hoffman, R. Osserman & R. Schoen

  2. Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA

    D. A. Hoffman, R. Osserman & R. Schoen

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA

    D. A. Hoffman, R. Osserman & R. Schoen

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This work was supported in part by NSF grants at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Stanford University, Stanford; University of California, Berkeley.

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Hoffman, D.A., Osserman, R. & Schoen, R. On the Gauss map of complete surfaces of constant mean curvature in R3 and R4 . Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 57, 519–531 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02565874

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