Paper 3, Section I, E

Geometry | Part IB, 2021

State the local Gauss-Bonnet theorem for geodesic triangles on a surface. Deduce the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for closed surfaces. [Existence of a geodesic triangulation can be assumed.]

Let SrR3S_{r} \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} denote the sphere with radius rr centred at the origin. Show that the Gauss curvature of SrS_{r} is 1/r21 / r^{2}. An octant is any of the eight regions in SrS_{r} bounded by arcs of great circles arising from the planes x=0,y=0,z=0x=0, y=0, z=0. Verify directly that the local Gauss-Bonnet theorem holds for an octant. [You may assume that the great circles on SrS_{r} are geodesics.]

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