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To: fnord
And what the hell is a harmonic reciprocal?

This should clear things up a bit!!!

Harmonic Reciprocal Mean Curvature Surfaces which are theta-isothermic

What is "theta-isothermic"? As one can define isothermic just by viewing on the functions of the fundamental forms - the Hopf differential is real with respect to a proper conformal coordinate - we define a surface to be theta-isothermic if the imaginary part of the Hopf differential is constant (theta) with respect to a proper conformal coordinate. However, neither is theta an invariant of the surface nor is the constant of the imaginary part of the Hopf differential a geomertrical property that is really understood up to now.

On the other side - even this is very new and not yet understood - for these "generalization" of isothermic surfaces there exist an involution, that maps a theta-isothermic surface (up to a scaling of the ambiente space) into an isothermic surface in either S3 or H3 and vice versa.

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94 posted on 08/24/2004 7:59:34 AM PDT by Eaker (R.I.P Tony Webb 10-Aug-04 - Phudd 28-Jun-04)
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To: Eaker

thanks, but I haven't had enough to drink to understand that yet


95 posted on 08/24/2004 10:13:16 AM PDT by fnord (Being humble doesn't mean thinking less of yourself. It means thinking more of others.)
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