The curvature tensor of the n-surface and its spherical image in En+k

The main task of classical multidimensional differential geometry is to study the properties of various n-surfaces. Often these studies use torsion coefficients that are defined for any n-surface with codimension k > 1 in (n + k)-dimensional Euclidean space. For hypersurfaces, the torsion coefficients are not defined. Another important concept used to study the properties of n-surfaces is the spherical Gaussian mapping. The Gaussian mapping defined on submanifolds of Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces allows one to study the external properties of a submanifold immersed in a Euclidean or pseudo-Euclidean space. In a number of papers, the properties of the Gaussian mapping are studied, as well as the geometric characteristics of the images of submanifolds under a spherical mapping, which are submanifolds of a hypersphere or a Grass-mannian. In this article, we study the local properties of the spherical image of a regular n-surface of arbitrary codimension. The spherical mapping is defined for n-surfaces with codimension greater than one in Euclidean space by means of a regular vector field. Each vector of this field at a point of the submanifold is orthogonal to the tangent space of the submanifold at the chosen point. The article uses the methods of differential and Riemannian geometry, as well as tensor analysis to study n-surfaces with a codimension greater than one. Under some additional conditions, a connection is established between the curvature tensor of a given surface and the curvature tensor of its spherical image. Under the same additional conditions, some geometric characteristics of the points of the spherical image of the original n-surface are studied.