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Gauss-Bonnet theorem (Theorem)

(Carl Friedrich Gauss and Pierre Ossian Bonnet) Given a two-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary, Gaussian curvature of points $G$ and geodesic curvature of points $g_x$ on the boundary $\partial M$ , it is the case that $$ \int_M G \, dA + \int_{\partial M}g_x ds = 2\pi\chi(M), $$ where $\chi(M)$ is the Euler characteristic of the manifold, $dA$ denotes the measure with respect to area, and $ds$ denotes the measure with respect to arclength on the boundary. This theorem expresses a topological invariant in terms of geometrical information.




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Cross-references: information, terms, topological invariant, theorem, area, measure, manifold, Euler characteristic, curvature, geodesic, points, Gaussian curvature, boundary, Riemannian manifold, compact, Gauss
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AMS MSC53A05 (Differential geometry :: Classical differential geometry :: Surfaces in Euclidean space)

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