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Tangency to a plane along a curve forces zero Gaussian curvature

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Mathematics Area of mathematics Geometry and topology Differential geometry Second fundamental form Fundamental forms of a graph surface
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After a rigid motion, write the plane as z=0 and the surface locally as z=h(x,y). Along the curve of tangency, h=0 and ∇h=0. Differentiating ∇h(γ(s))=0 shows that the Hessian annihilates the nonzero tangent γ′(s), so its determinant and therefore the Gaussian curvature vanish.

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