We consider a special case for curves in two-, three-, and four-dimensional Euclidean spaces and obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the tensor product surfaces of the planar unit circle centered at the origin and these curves to have a harmonic Gauss map.
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Published in Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 64, No. 12, pp. 1630–1640, December, 2012.
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Etemad Dehkordy, A. A study on tensor product surfaces in low-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Ukr Math J 64, 1839–1850 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-013-0755-0
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