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We show that a semi-parallel hypersurface of a sphere and a hyperbolic space is either flat, parallel or a rotation hypersurface whose profile curve is a helix.
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Supported by a research fellowship of the Research Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Dillen, F. Semi-parallel hypersurfaces of a real space form. Israel J. Math. 75, 193–202 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02776024
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