JournalsaihpcVol. 35, No. 3pp. 675–685

Hessian surfaces and local Lagrangian embeddings

  • Qing Han

    Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States; Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

  • Guofang Wang

    Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Mathematisches Institut, Eckerstr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Abstract

In this paper we prove that any smooth surfaces can be locally isometrically embedded into as Lagrangian surfaces. As a byproduct we obtain that any smooth surfaces are Hessian surfaces.

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Qing Han, Guofang Wang, Hessian surfaces and local Lagrangian embeddings. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 35 (2018), no. 3, pp. 675–685

DOI 10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2017.07.003