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==Statement==
==Statement==


Any regular surface embedded in <math>\R^3</math>, which is an ovaloid (in the sense that it is differentiable, closed and convex) and has constant mean curvature, must be a sphere.
Any regular surface embedded in <math>\R^3</math>, which is an ovaloid (in the sense that it is differentiable, closed and convex) and has constant [[mean curvature]], must be a sphere.


==Related results==
==Related results==

Latest revision as of 19:48, 18 May 2008

This result is about manifolds in dimension:2

Statement

Any regular surface embedded in R3, which is an ovaloid (in the sense that it is differentiable, closed and convex) and has constant mean curvature, must be a sphere.

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