Inequalities for the curvature of curves and surfaces

  • Authors:
  • David Cohen-Steiner;Herbert Edelsbrunner

  • Affiliations:
  • Duke University, Durham, NC;Duke University, Durham, NC

  • Venue:
  • SCG '05 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we bound the difference between the total mean curvatures of two closed surfaces in R3 in terms of their total absolute curvatures and the Fréchet distance between the volumes they enclose. The proof relies on a combination of methods from algebraic topology and integral geometry. We also bound the difference between the lengths of two curves using the same methods.