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Umbilic Point


An umbilic point, also called simply an umbilic, is a point on a surface at which the curvature is the same in any direction.

Carathéodory's conjecture predicts at least two umbilic points on every closed strictly convex smooth surface in R^3. Loewner's conjecture gives the related local index bound.


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Weisstein, Eric W. "Umbilic Point." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/UmbilicPoint.html

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