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1990 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Curvature

verfasst von : Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine

Erschienen in: Riemannian Geometry

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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A parallel vector field in R2 is just a constant field. Now, on a surface, there are generally no (even local) parallel vector fields. How much the parallel transport of a field along a small closed curve differ from the identity is measured in terms of the curvature of the surface, a function k: M → R.

Metadaten
Titel
Curvature
verfasst von
Sylvestre Gallot
Dominique Hulin
Jacques Lafontaine
Copyright-Jahr
1990
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97242-3_3

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