Angle Contraction Between Geodesics

DOI10.1080/1726037X.2010.10698573MaRDI QIDQ3008079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolai A. Krylov, Edwin L. Rogers

Publication date 14 June 2011

Published in Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0315

zbMATH Keywords

Banach contraction principledifference equationGauss-Bonnet theoremgeodesic triangleprincipal curvatureregular curvesmooth surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We consider here a generalization of a well known discrete dynamical system produced by the bisection of reflection angles that are constructed recursively between two lines in the Euclidean plane. It is shown that similar properties of such systems are observed when the plane is replaced by a regular surface in ${mathbbR}^3$ and lines are replaced by geodesics. An application of our results to the classification of points on the surface as elliptic, hyperbolic or parabolic is also presented.

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Cites work

• An Introduction to Metric Spaces and Fixed Point Theory

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