The Cut Locus of Riemannian Manifolds: a Surface of Revolution

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Published: Mar 30, 2018
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Riemannian manifolds, surface of revolution, homeomorphic

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Minoru Tanaka*
Department of Mathematics, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan

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This article reviews the structure theorems of the cut locus for very familiar surfaces of revolution. Some properties of the cut locus of a point of a Riemannian manifold are also discussed.


 Keywords: Riemannian manifolds, surface of revolution, homeomorphic


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E-mail: tanaka@tokai-u.jp


 

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2016)
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