Total curvature and spiralling shortest paths (Q1423577)
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Total curvature and spiralling shortest paths (English)
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7 March 2004
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Extrinsic geometric properties of shortest paths on convex polyhedral surfaces in \(R^3\) are investigated. As an example, a polyhedron is contructed which contains a shortest path whose total curvature (angle of curve turning) exceedes \(2\pi\). Also polyhedra which contain shortest paths with sufficiently large spiralling number are constructed. A uniform estimation from above for the turning angle of shortest paths is found for a particular class of polyhedra whose diameters do not differ considerably from their widths.
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shortest path on convex surface
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total curvature
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spiralling number
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