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Curvature corrected estimates for geodesic arc-length

Differential Geometry 2015-12-14 v1

Abstract

We will develop simple relations between the arc-lengths of a pair of geodesics that share common end-points. The two geodesics differ only by the requirement that one is constrained to lie in a subspace of the parent manifold. We will present two applications of our results. In the first example we explore the convergence of Gaussian curvature estimates on a simple triangular mesh. The second example demonstrates an improved error estimate for the area of a Schwarz lantern.

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@article{arxiv.1512.03461,
  title  = {Curvature corrected estimates for geodesic arc-length},
  author = {Leo Brewin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03461},
  year   = {2015}
}
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