Geometrical Description Of Monkey’s Saddle

  • Miloš Kaňka Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Polytechnics Jihlava
  • Eva Kaňková Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics, Prague
Keywords: , Cartan’s Moving Frame Method, Weingarten Map, Gaussian Curvature, Main Curvature, Moving Frame

Abstract

The principal object of this paper is the regular parametric surface M in  defined by the formula . The geometrical description methods we are going to use are based on Cartan’s moving frame method and on Weingarten map. The studied map  is  regular

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Published
2012-09-01
Issue
Vol 6 (2012)
Section
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Copyright (c) 2012 Miloš Kaňka, Eva Kaňková

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