An elementary proof of a finite rigidity problem by infinitesimal rigidity methods
Author:
Edgar Kann
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (1976), 252-258
MSC:
Primary 53C45
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0420518-1
MathSciNet review:
0420518
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Abstract: Let two compact, isometric surfaces with boundary be given having positive gauss curvature. If the surfaces can be placed so that their normal spherical images lie in a compact subset of a hemisphere of the unit sphere and so that the isometry is the identity on the boundary then the isometry is the identity mapping. The proof is elementary in the sense that no integral formulae or maximum principles for elliptic operators are needed. An example is given of a surface satisfying the above hypotheses which is neither convex nor has a representation in the form $z = f(x,y)$.
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Keywords:
Infinitesimal rigidity,
isometric surfaces,
congruent surfaces,
rotation vector
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