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In Riemannian geometry, Gauss's lemma asserts that any sufficiently small sphere centered at a point in a Riemannian manifold is perpendicular to every geodesic through the point. More formally, let ''M'' be a Riemannian manifold, equipped with its Levi-Civita connection, and ''p'' a point of ''M''. The exponential map is a mapping from the tangent space at ''p'' to ''M'': : which is a diffeomorphism in a neighborhood of zero. Gauss' lemma asserts that the image of a sphere of sufficiently small radius in ''T''p''M'' under the exponential map is perpendicular to all geodesics originating at ''p''. The lemma allows the exponential map to be understood as a radial isometry, and is of fundamental importance in the study of geodesic convexity and normal coordinates. == Introduction == We define the exponential map at by : where is the unique geodesic with and tangent and is chosen small enough so that for every the geodesic is defined in 1. So, if is complete, then, by the Hopf–Rinow theorem, is defined on the whole tangent space. Let be a curve differentiable in such that and . Since , it is clear that we can choose . In this case, by the definition of the differential of the exponential in applied over , we obtain: : So (with the right identification ) the differential of is the identity. By the implicit function theorem, is a diffeomorphism on a neighborhood of . The Gauss Lemma now tells that is also a radial isometry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gauss's lemma (Riemannian geometry)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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