@article{oai:ynu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007012, author = {Tanaka, Ayako}, issue = {2}, journal = {Yokohama Mathematical Journal = 横濱市立大學紀要. D部門, 数学}, month = {}, note = {application/pdf, The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of a surface in the n- dimensional Euclidean unit sphere S^{n} with prescribed Gauss map. For a given 0 infty-mapping G from a torus T^{2} into the complex quadric Q_{n-1} , we show that there exists a conformal immersion X : hat{T}^{2} rightarrow S^{n} such that the Gauss map of the surface S=(T^{2}, S^{n}, X) is Go pi where pi : hat{T}^{2} rightarrow T^{2} is a covering map. Let G be a c infty-mapping from a nnected Riemann surface M into Q_{n-1} . Under a certain condition for G we also show that there exists a surface defined by a o infty-conformal immersion X from M to the n-dimensional real projective space RP^{n} with the property that a neighborhood of each point of X(M) is covered by a surface in S^{n} with prescribed Gauss map G . By using this result we give a characterization of certain tori immersed in RP^{n} .}, pages = {151--173}, title = {AN EXISTENCE THEOREM FOR A SURFACE IN S^{n} WITH A GIVEN MAP AS ITS GAUSS MAP}, volume = {52}, year = {2006} }