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On the Gauss curvature of compact surfaces in homogeneous 3-manifolds

Author(s): Francisco Torralbo; Francisco Urbano
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 2561-2567.
MSC (2010): Primary 53C42; Secondary 53C30
Posted: February 25, 2010
MathSciNet review: 2607886
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Abstract: Compact flat surfaces of homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifolds with isometry group of dimension 4 are classified. Nonexistence results for compact constant Gauss curvature surfaces in these 3-manifolds are established.

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Francisco Torralbo
Affiliation: Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Email: ftorralbo@ugr.es

Francisco Urbano
Affiliation: Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Email: furbano@ugr.es

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10316-5
PII: S 0002-9939(10)10316-5
Received by editor(s): March 12, 2009,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 20, 2009
Posted: February 25, 2010
Additional Notes: This research was partially supported by MCyT-Feder research project MTM2007-61775 and Junta Andalucía Grant P06-FQM-01642.
Communicated by: Jon G. Wolfson
Copyright of article: Copyright 2010, American Mathematical Society

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