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Double Forms, Curvature Integrals and the Gauss-Bonnet Formula

Troyanov, Marc  
May 24, 2024
Surveys in Geometry II

The Gauss-Bonnet Formula is a significant achievement in nineteenth century differential geometry for the case of surfaces and the twentieth century cumulative work of H. Hopf, W. Fenchel, C. B. Allendoerfer, A. Weil and S.S. Chern for higher-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. It relates the Euler characteristic of a Riemannian manifold to a curvature integral over the manifold plus a somewhat enigmatic boundary term. In this chapter, we revisit the formula using the formalism of double forms, a tool introduced by de Rham, and further developed by Kulkarni, Thorpe, and Gray. We explore the geometric nature of the boundary term and provide some examples and applications.

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DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-43510-2_4
Author(s)
Troyanov, Marc  
Date Issued

2024-05-24

Publisher

Springer

Journal
Surveys in Geometry II
ISBN of the book

978-3-031-43510-2

Start page

93

End page

143

Subjects

Gauss-Bonnet formula

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Double forms

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Curvature integrals AMS Subject Classification 58A10, 53C20

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REVIEWED

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