Paper 2, Section II, I
Part II, 2012
Define the Gauss map for an oriented surface . Show that at each the derivative of the Gauss map
is self-adjoint. Define the principal curvatures of .
Now suppose that is compact (and without boundary). By considering the square of the distance to the origin, or otherwise, prove that has a point with .
[You may assume that the intersection of with a plane through the normal direction at contains a regular curve through .]