Paper 1, Section II, I
Part II, 2012
Define the geodesic curvature of a regular curve in an oriented surface . When is along a curve?
Explain briefly what is meant by the Euler characteristic of a compact surface . State the global Gauss-Bonnet theorem with boundary terms.
Let be a surface with positive Gaussian curvature that is diffeomorphic to the sphere and let be two disjoint simple closed curves in . Can both and be geodesics? Can both and have constant geodesic curvature? Justify your answers.
[You may assume that the complement of a simple closed curve in consists of two open connected regions.]