Curvature via the de Sitter’s Space-Time
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https://doi.org/10.5644/SJM.07.1.09Keywords:
Central curvature, total central curvature, spherical image, de Sitter's space-time, Lorentzian spaceAbstract
We define the central curvature and the total central curvature of a closed curve in a Lorentz $(n + 1)$--space. In addition, we obtain estimates for the total central curvatures of spacelike pure polygons. The study is done by using the n-dimensional de Sitter's space-time.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 53B30, 53C50
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