A Bound on the Number of Endpoints of the Cut Locus

DOI10.1112/S1461157000001170zbMath1111.53004OpenAlexW2116672578MaRDI QIDQ3430818

Robert Sinclair, Minoru Tanaka

Publication date: 4 April 2007

Published in: LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/9/lms2005-018/

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvatureexperimental evidence2-surface of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to differential geometry (53-04)

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Bifurcations of the conjugate locus ⋮ A new family of latitudinally corrugated two-spheres of revolution with simple cut locus structure ⋮ Alexandrov's isodiametric conjecture and the cut locus of a surface ⋮ The conjugate locus in convex 3-manifolds ⋮ Generalized von Mangoldt surfaces of revolution and asymmetric two-spheres of revolution with simple cut locus structure ⋮ Conjugate and cut loci of a two-sphere of revolution with application to optimal control ⋮ Total curvatures of model surfaces control topology of complete open manifolds with radial curvature bounded below. II

Uses Software

• Loki
• Thaw

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