For , the angular Jacobi field equation on a surface becomes
The Riemannian area element is .
Use an isometry of the Poincare disc model to move the centre to zero. A hyperbolic disc of radius then has Euclidean radius by the hyperbolic distance formula. The area element of a surface of the Riemannian metric is , so
Therefore the area is independent of the centre, and
The generating circle has , and its revolution is a torus. From part (a), and the area element of a surface is . Therefore
The positive Gaussian curvature on the outer side exactly cancels the negative curvature on the inner side. Equivalently, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem gives because the Euler characteristic of the torus is zero.
Put . The Jacobi equation in geodesic polar coordinates and the initial conditions from part (b) are
Inside a geodesic polar coordinate ball, . If , then , so and therefore . The Riemannian area element is , whence
Thus nonpositive Gaussian curvature makes such a ball at least as large as the Euclidean disk of the same radius.
For a positively oriented local parametrization with first fundamental form
the area element of a surface is
Under an orientation-preserving coordinate change, the Jacobian from cancels the inverse Jacobian in the square root of the metric determinant. Hence these local expressions agree and define a global two-form.
The Euler characteristic may be defined from any finite triangulation by
or equivalently by the alternating sum of the dimensions of the rational homology groups. Subdivision leaves unchanged, and the homological formula shows that it is a topological invariant, so the definition does not depend on the triangulation.
Give the boundary its induced orientation and parametrize it by arc length. If is its unit tangent and is the chosen unit normal to the surface, its signed geodesic curvature is
where is the surface covariant derivative. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a compact oriented surface with smooth boundary and no corners is
where is the Gaussian curvature.