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A measure of symmetry for the moduli of spherical minimal immersions

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A Grünbaum type of measure of symmetry is calculated and estimated for the DoCarmo-Wallach moduli spaces for eigenmaps and spherical minimal immersions. The DeTurck-Ziller classification of minimal imbeddings of 3-dimensional space forms is used to obtain exact determination of the measure for the SU(2)-equivariant moduli.

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Toth, G. A measure of symmetry for the moduli of spherical minimal immersions. Geom Dedicata 160, 1–14 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-011-9667-z

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