scholarly journals On the total curvature of tropical hypersurfaces

2013 ◽  
pp. 21-43
Author(s):  
Benoît Bertrand ◽  
Lucía de Medrano ◽  
Jean-Jacques Risler
Keyword(s):  
Total Curvature

The focusing of radiation by a random surface when the source is at a finite distance

1960 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Longuet-Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Joint Distribution ◽  
Total Curvature ◽  
Statistical Distribution ◽  
Constant Parameter ◽  
Random Surface ◽  
Second Derivatives ◽  
Finite Distance ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Image Position

Imagine a nearly horizontal, statistically uniform, random surface ζ(x, y), Gaussian in the sense that the second derivatives , , have a normal joint distribution. The problem considered is the statistical distribution of the quantitywhere J and Ω denote the mean curvature and total curvature of the surface, respectively, and ν is a constant parameter.

Curvature-dependent energies: a geometric and analytical approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Acerbi ◽  
Domenico Mucci
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Variation ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Total Curvature ◽  
Representation Formula ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Continuous Functions ◽  
Explicit Representation ◽  
Functions Of Bounded Variation ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Relaxed Energy

We consider the total curvature of graphs of curves in high-codimension Euclidean space. We introduce the corresponding relaxed energy functional and prove an explicit representation formula. In the case of continuous Cartesian curves, i.e. of graphs cu of continuous functions u on an interval, we show that the relaxed energy is finite if and only if the curve cu has bounded variation and finite total curvature. In this case, moreover, the total curvature does not depend on the Cantor part of the derivative of u. We treat the wider class of graphs of one-dimensional functions of bounded variation, and we prove that the relaxed energy is given by the sum of the length and total curvature of the new curve obtained by closing the holes in cu generated by jumps of u with vertical segments.

scholarly journals Total Curvature and Total Torsion of Knotted Polymers

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 3860-3867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Plunkett ◽  
Michael Piatek ◽  
Akos Dobay ◽  
John C. Kern ◽  
Kenneth C. Millett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Total Curvature ◽  
Total Torsion
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