Total Curvature - Comparison To Surfaces

Comparison To Surfaces

This relationship between a local invariant, the curvature, and a global topological invariant, the index, is characteristic of results in higher-dimensional Riemannian geometry such as the Gauss–Bonnet theorem.

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