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Gauss maps

Gauss maps is the plural of Gauss map.

Meaning of Gauss map

Noun

Gauss map (plural Gauss maps)

  1. (differential geometry) A map from a given oriented surface in Euclidean space to the unit sphere which maps each point on the surface to a unit vector orthogonal to the surface at that point.
    • 1969 [Van Nostrand], Robert Osserman, A Survey of Minimal Surfaces, 2014, Dover, Unabridged republication, page 73,
      There exist complete generalized minimal surfaces, not lying in a plane, whose Gauss map lies in an arbitrarily small neighborhood on the sphere.

Questions about Gauss maps

What is Gauss maps the plural of?
Gauss maps is the plural of Gauss map.

Words near Gauss maps in the dictionary

  1. Gauss curvature
  2. Gauss curvatures
  3. Gauss gun
  4. Gauss guns
  5. Gauss map
  6. Gauss maps
  7. Gauss symbol
  8. Gauss's area formula
  9. Gauss-Bonnet theorem
  10. Gauss-Codazzi equation
  11. Gauss-Codazzi equations

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