Compatibility of Gauss maps with metrics

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions on a smooth local map of a Riemannian manifold Mm into the sphere Sm to be the Gauss map of an isometric immersion u:Mm Rn, n=m+1. We briefly discuss the case of general n as well

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