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- Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Added further explanations to the example of the staircase curve
Riemannian Geometry course project on the manifold H¹(I, M) of class H¹ curves on a Riemannian manifold M and its applications to the geodesics problem
Added further explanations to the example of the staircase curve
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Modified | sections/structure.tex | 12 | 7 | 5 |
diff --git a/sections/structure.tex b/sections/structure.tex @@ -59,11 +59,12 @@ approximating the curve \gamma : I & \to \RR^2 \\ t & \mapsto (t, 1 - t) \end{align*} -with ``step curves'' \(\gamma_n : I \to \RR^n\) for larger and larger values of -\(n\), as shown in figure~\ref{fig:step-curves}. +with ``staircase curves'' \(\gamma_n : I \to \RR^n\) for larger and larger +values of \(n\), as shown in figure~\ref{fig:step-curves}: clearly \(\gamma_n +\to \gamma\) in the uniform topology, but \(\ell(\gamma_n) = 2\) does not +approach \(\ell(\gamma) = \sqrt 2\) as \(n\) approachs \(\infty\). -% TODO: Add a figure and a caption explaining why length is discontinuous -\begin{figure}\label{fig:step-curves} +\begin{figure}[h]\label{fig:step-curves} \centering \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (4, 1) -- (1, 4); @@ -81,7 +82,8 @@ with ``step curves'' \(\gamma_n : I \to \RR^n\) for larger and larger values of \node[above] at (1.5, 4.3) {$\sfrac{1}{n}$}; \end{tikzpicture} \caption{A diagonal line representing the curve \(\gamma\) overlaps a - staircase-like curve \(\gamma_n\), whose steps measure \(\sfrac{1}{n}\).} + staircase-like curve \(\gamma_n\), whose steps measure \(\sfrac{1}{n}\) in + width and height.} \end{figure} The issue with this particular example is that while \(\gamma_n \to \gamma\)