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Research Papers
On the total curvature of minimizing geodesics on convex surfaces
N. Lebedevaab, A. Petruninc a Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskii pr., 28, 198504, St. Petersburg, Russia
b St. Petersburg Branch, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fontanka, 27, 191023, St. Petersburg, Russia
c Math. Dept. PSU, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Abstract:
We give a universal upper bound for the total curvature of a minimizing geodesic on a convex surface in the Euclidean space.
Keywords:
geodesic, curvature, Liberman's lemma, development, tongue.
Received: 20.05.2016
Citation:
N. Lebedeva, A. Petrunin, “On the total curvature of minimizing geodesics on convex surfaces”, Algebra i Analiz, 29:1 (2017), 189–208; St. Petersburg Math. J., 29:1 (2018), 139–153
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/aa1526 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/aa/v29/i1/p189
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