Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 7 (2002), Issue 3, Pages 113-123
doi:10.1155/S1085337502000799

On the curvature of nonregular saddle surfaces in the hyperbolic and spherical three-space

Abstract

This paper proves that any nonregular nonparametric saddle surface in a three-dimensional space of nonzero constant curvature k, which is bounded by a rectifiable curve, is a space of curvature not greater than k in the sense of Aleksandrov. This generalizes a classical theorem by Shefel' on saddle surfaces in 𝔼3.