ON THE NONBENDABILITY OF CLOSED SURFACES OF TRIGONOMETRIC TYPE

Abstract

In connection with a well-known problem on the existence of closed bendable surfaces in E3 the author considers the class of surfaces for which each component of the radius vector is a trigonometric polynomial in two variables. Two theorems on the nonbendability of surfaces in this class are proved, and an expression for the volume of the domain bounded by such a surface is established. Theorem 1 (the main theorem) asserts the nonbendability of a surface under the condition that some Diophantine equation does not have negative solutions. In this case the coefficients of the second fundamental form can be expressed in a finite-valued way in terms of the coefficients of the first fundamental form as algebraic expressions.