Teorema di Eulero (geometria differenziale)

Teorema di Eulero (geometria differenziale) Nel campo matematico della geometria differenziale, Euler's theorem is a result on the curvature of curves on a surface. The theorem establishes the existence of principal curvatures and associated principal directions which give the directions in which the surface curves the most and the least. The theorem is named for Leonhard Euler who proved the theorem in (Euler 1760).

Più precisamente, let M be a surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space, and p a point on M. A normal plane through p is a plane passing through the point p containing the normal vector to M. Through each (unità) tangent vector to M at p, there passes a normal plane PX which cuts out a curve in M. That curve has a certain curvature κX when regarded as a curve inside PX. Provided not all κX are equal, there is some unit vector X1 for which k1 = κX1 is as large as possible, and another unit vector X2 for which k2 = κX2 is as small as possible. Euler's theorem asserts that X1 and X2 are perpendicular and that, moreover, if X is any vector making an angle θ with X1, poi {displaystyle kappa _{X}=k_{1}cos ^{2}theta +k_{2}peccato ^{2}teta .,} (1) The quantities k1 and k2 are called the principal curvatures, and X1 and X2 are the corresponding principal directions. Equation (1) is sometimes called Euler's equation (Eisenhart 2004, p. 124).

See also Differential geometry of surfaces Dupin indicatrix References Eisenhart, Luther P. (2004), A Treatise on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Dover, ISBN 0-486-43820-1 Full 1909 testo (now out of copyright) Euler, Leonhard (1760), "Recherches sur la courbure des surfaces", Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Berlin (pubblicato 1767), 16: 119–143. Spivak, Michael (1999), Un'introduzione completa alla geometria differenziale, Volume II, Pubblica o muori stampa, ISBN 0-914098-71-3 Questo articolo relativo alla geometria differenziale è solo un abbozzo. Puoi aiutare Wikipedia espandendolo.

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