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June 30th, 2009, 05:16 AM
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It's going to be lengthy anyhow, but here's a slight improvement:
Compute the Gaussian and mean curvatures
and
in terms of the coefficients in the first and second fundamental forms, and remember that
the principal curvatures satisfy the equation
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