Total curvature of curves in Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/j.difgeo.2009.10.008zbMath1188.53054WikidataQ115357157 ScholiaQ115357157MaRDI QIDQ960867

V. Fernández Mateos, Marco Castrillón López, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date: 29 March 2010

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2009.10.008

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifold; geodesic polygon; total curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

51M20: Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C40: Global submanifolds

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

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