Generalização do teorema de Hopf para uma classe de superfícies de Weingarten

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to make a clear and detailed exposition of the work of Robert L. Bryant on the class of Weingarten Surfaces immersed in the Euclidean tree-space, E3, that satisfy the equation (formula), where H and K denote the mean and the Gaussian curvatures respectively and f is a smooth function. The surfaces with constant mean curvature and those with constant Gaussian curvature clearly belong to this class and if they have genus zero, the Hopf`s and the Liebermann`s theorems respectively state that they are standard spheres of E3. The main result of this work characterizes the standard spheres as the only Wein-garten surface of genus zero in the mentioned class.