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On Gaussian and Geodesic Curvature of Riemannian Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Hansklaus Rummler
Hansklaus Rummler*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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In [1], S. S. Chern gave a very elegant and simple proof of the Gauss-Bonnet formula for closed (i.e. compact without boundary) oriented Riemannian manifolds of even dimension:

Here, c is a suitable constant depending on the dimension of M and Ω is an n-form (n = dim M) which may be calculated from its curvature tensor. W. Greub gave a coordinate-free description of this integrand Ω (cf. [4]).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 1974 , pp. 629 - 635
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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