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Gauss formula
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2026-10-03
For
a
submanifold
with induced
Levi-Civita connection
∇
and
second fundamental form
A
, the ambient
derivative
decomposes
as
∇
X
Y
=
∇
X
Y
+
A
(
X
,
Y
)
.
(1)
For
a
parametrized surface
this reads
X
ij
=
Γ
ij
k
X
k
+
h
ij
N
.
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