On the set of directions at a point of strict tangency in which one can draw shortest geodesics

DOI10.1007/BF02113926zbMath0888.53034MaRDI QIDQ1921764

Irina Viktorovna Polikanova

Publication date: 7 June 1998

Published in: Siberian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02113926

zbMATH Keywords

submanifolds; Euclidean \(n\)-space; shortest geodesics; strict tangency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A07: Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

52A20: Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces)

Cites Work

• Extrinsic geometric properties of shortest geodesics in a neighborhood about a point of strict tangency