Curvatures of Smooth and Discrete Surfaces

We discuss notions of Gauss curvature and mean curvature for polyhedral surfaces. The discretizations are guided by the principle of preserving integral relations for curvatures, like the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and the mean-curvature force balance equation.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  arXiv: Differential Geometry

• Publication date

  2007-10-24

• Fields of study

  Mathematics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/978-3-7643-8621-4_9arXiv 0710.4497
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