Conformal Geometry of Surfaces in S4 and Quaternions

Conformal Geometry of Surfaces in S4 and Quaternions
ISBN-10
3540430083
ISBN-13
9783540430087
Category
Mathematics
Pages
86
Language
English
Published
2002-03-05
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Ulrich Pinkall, Franz Pedit, Francis E. Burstall

Description

The conformal geometry of surfaces recently developed by the authors leads to a unified understanding of algebraic curve theory and the geometry of surfaces on the basis of a quaternionic-valued function theory. The book offers an elementary introduction to the subject but takes the reader to rather advanced topics. Willmore surfaces in the foursphere, their Bcklund and Darboux transforms are covered, and a new proof of the classification of Willmore spheres is given.

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