The Christoffel-Minkowski Problem II: Weingarten Curvature Equations*

Abstract

In this paper the authors discuss the existence and convexity of hypersurfaces with prescribed Weingarten curvature.

Keywords

Existence / Convexity / Weingarten curvature / 35J60 / 58G11

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