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Lecture Notes for 120 - UCLA Department of Mathematics

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B.6. CHEBYSHEV NETS 188<br />

(1) Show that<br />

and<br />

uuu = 0<br />

uvu = 0 = vuu<br />

vvv = r @r<br />

@v<br />

uvv = r @r<br />

@u =<br />

uuv = 0<br />

vvu = r @r<br />

@u ,<br />

u<br />

w 1w 2<br />

= w 1w 2u<br />

v<br />

w 1w 2<br />

= 1 r 2 w1w2v<br />

K =<br />

@ 2 r<br />

@u 2<br />

r<br />

vuv<br />

B.6. Chebyshev Nets<br />

These correspond to a parametrization where the first fundamental <strong>for</strong>m looks<br />

like:<br />

apple 1 c<br />

I =<br />

c 1<br />

apple<br />

1 cos ✓<br />

=<br />

,<br />

cos ✓ 1<br />

Real life interpretations that are generally brought up are fishnet stockings or nonstretchable<br />

cloth tailored to the contours <strong>of</strong> the body. The idea is to have a material<br />

where the fibers are not changed in length or stretched, but are allowed to change<br />

their mutual angles.<br />

Note that such parametrizations are characterized as having unit speed parameter<br />

curves.<br />

Exercises.<br />

(1) Show that any surface locally admits Chebyshev nets. Hint: Fix a point<br />

p = q (u 0 ,v 0 ) <strong>for</strong> a given parametrization and define new parameters<br />

ˆ u1<br />

p<br />

s (u, v) = guu (x, v)dx<br />

t (u, v) =<br />

u<br />

ˆ<br />

0<br />

v1<br />

v 0<br />

p<br />

gvv (u, y)dy<br />

To show that these give a new parametrization near p show that<br />

and<br />

@s<br />

@v ! 0 as (u, v) ! (u 0,v 0 )<br />

@t<br />

@u ! 0 as (u, v) ! (u 0,v 0 )

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