Distances on Surfaces and Knots

Michel Marie Deza and Elena Deza
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Michel Marie Deza: École Normale Supérieure
Elena Deza: Moscow State Pedagogical University

Chapter Chapter 8 in Encyclopedia of Distances, 2013, pp 157-168 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A surface is a real two-dimensional manifold M 2, i.e., a Hausdorff space, each point of which has a neighborhood which is homeomorphic to a plane $\mathbb{E}^{2}$ , or a closed half-plane (cf. Chap. 7 ).

Keywords: Riemann Surface; Line Element; Gaussian Curvature; Parametric Equation; Quadratic Differential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30958-8_8

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