Any 2-Sphere in E 3 with Uniform Interior Tangent Balls is Flat

Daverman, R. J. ; Loveland, L. D.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 33 (1981) no. 1, pp. 150-167

Résumé

This paper addresses some flatness properties of an (n – 1)-sphere Σ in Euclidean n-space En resulting from the presence of round balls in En tangent to Σ. The notion of tangency used here is geometric rather than differentiable, for a round n-cell B p (that is, the set of points whose distance, in the standard metric, from some center point is less than or equal to a fixed positive number) is said to be tangent to the (n – 1)-sphere Σ in En at a point p ∈ Σ if p ∈ Bp and Int Bp ⊂ Σ = ∅. The ball Bp is called an interior tangent ball at p if Int Bp ⊂ Int Σ; otherwise, it is called an exterior tangent ball at p.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1981-014-5

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