Sectional curvature
- Wikidata
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855622
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/C42448751 (API record)
- OpenAlex Description
- scalar quantity; given two unit tangent vectors u, v at the same point, defined as K(u,v) = ⟨R(u,v)v,u⟩/(1-⟨u,v⟩²), where R is the Riemann curvature
- OpenAlex Level [?]
- 4
Broader Concepts
Narrower Concepts
- Constant-mean-curvature surface
- Curvature form
- Curvature of Riemannian manifolds
- Exponential map (Riemannian geometry)
- Hyperkähler manifold
- Levi-Civita connection
- Minimal volume
- Prescribed scalar curvature problem
- Radius of curvature
- Riemannian submersion
- Torsion of a curve
- Total curvature
- Willmore energy
- Yamabe flow
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