Paper 4, Section II, G

Geometry | Part IB, 2018

A Möbius strip in R3\mathbb{R}^{3} is parametrized by

σ(u,v)=(Q(u,v)sinu,Q(u,v)cosu,vcos(u/2))\sigma(u, v)=(Q(u, v) \sin u, Q(u, v) \cos u, v \cos (u / 2))

for (u,v)U=(0,2π)×R(u, v) \in U=(0,2 \pi) \times \mathbb{R}, where QQ(u,v)=2vsin(u/2)Q \equiv Q(u, v)=2-v \sin (u / 2). Show that the Gaussian curvature is

K=1(v2/4+Q2)2K=\frac{-1}{\left(v^{2} / 4+Q^{2}\right)^{2}}

at (u,v)U(u, v) \in U

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