Total excess on length surfaces

DOI10.1007/PL00004454MaRDI QIDQ5947413zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yoshiroh Machigashira, Fumiko Ohtsuka

Publication date 16 October 2001

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00004454

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov spaceEuler characteristicGauss curvatureGauss-Bonnet theoremgeneralized Euler characteristicgeodesic polygonlength spacequasi-total excessspace of directionstotal excessupper angle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

Review text

Let \( X \) be a connected complete length space, that is, \( (X, d) \) is a connected complete metric space such that for any points \( p, q \) in \( X \) there is a curve \( c \) from \( p \) to \( q \) of length \( d(p,q) \). Let \( \mathcal{U} \subset X \) be the set of all points having a neighborhood homeomorphic to a two-dimensional open disk and assume that \( X \) satisfies the following topological condition (T): \( \mathcal{P} = X \setminus \mathcal{U} \) is a discrete set of \( X \) and, for any \( p \in \mathcal{P} \), there exists a neighborhood \( U \) such that \( U \setminus \{ p \} \) consists of a finite number of two-dimensional annuli. The authors call such an \( X \) satisfying two additional technical conditions a good surface. For example, an Alexandrov space of curvature bounded from above satisfying condition (T) is a good surface. In a previous paper, the first author has introduced the concept of total excess for compact Alexandrov surfaces of curvature bounded from below [J. Math. Soc. Japan 50, 859-878 (1998; Zbl 0936.53044)], in a fashion similar to that of \textit{H. Busemann} for \(G\)-surfaces [The geometry of geodesics, Academic Press, New York, London (1955; Zbl 0112.37002)]. He also defined Gaussian curvature in terms of total excess. In the paper under review, the authors define the total excess for compact good surfaces and prove the generalized Gauss-Bonnet theorem for such surfaces. Also, the generalization of the total excess as well as of the Euler characteristic for noncompact good surfaces is considered. Following the method developed by the first author in a previous paper (see loc.cit.), it is shown that the Gaussian curvature of a good surface \( X \) with non-positive total excess can be defined almost everywhere on \( X \).

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