The total split curvatures of knotted space-like $2$-spheres in Minkowski $4$-space
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Abstract:
In this paper we establish an analogue of the Fary-Milnor Theorem for space-like $2$-spheres in Minkowski $4$-space.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1993 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 117 (1993), 813-818
- MSC: Primary 53C50; Secondary 53C42, 57Q45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1993-1145420-1
- MathSciNet review: 1145420