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TIGHT SURFACE


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An orientable closed surface is said to be tight if its total absolute Gauss curvature is minimal among the surfaces of the same genus (this total curvature being defined by  where  is the Gauss curvature, product of the principal curvatures).

This minimal value is given by the formula  where g is the genus of the surface and  its Euler-Poincaré characteristic.

The inequality  with equality if the surface is tense, is to be compared with the equality of Gauss-Bonnet.

The following beautiful theorem concretely characterizes tight surfaces [Kühnel, p. 186] :

For a closed orientable surface S, noting  the portion of S having a positive Gauss curvature, the following conditions are equivalent:

a) S is tight.
b) 
c) 
d) Any plane separates S into two or less connected components.

In particular the 0-genus tight surfaces are the boundary surfaces of the convex bodies of .
 
 
Geometric tori are tight surfaces, because any plane separates them into two or less parts, or because. This 2-genus surface is not tight. This 2-genus surface proposed by Banchoff and Kuiper in 1981 is tight (see [Kühnel, p. 186]).
It is a component of the surface of equation .
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