Paper 3, Section II, I

Differential Geometry | Part II, 2018

Let SR3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} be a surface.

(a) Define the Gaussian curvature KK of SS in terms of the coefficients of the first and second fundamental forms, computed with respect to a local parametrization ϕ(u,v)\phi(u, v) of SS.

Prove the Theorema Egregium, i.e. show that the Gaussian curvature can be expressed entirely in terms of the coefficients of the first fundamental form and their first and second derivatives with respect to uu and vv.

(b) State the global Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a compact orientable surface SS.

(c) Now assume that SS is non-compact and diffeomorphic to S2\{(1,0,0)}\mathbb{S}^{2} \backslash\{(1,0,0)\} but that there is a point pR3p \in \mathbb{R}^{3} such that S{p}S \cup\{p\} is a compact subset of R3\mathbb{R}^{3}. Is it necessarily the case that SKdA=4/π?\int_{S} K d A=4 / \pi ? Justify your answer.

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