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Isometric halves give zero total boundary geodesic curvature

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If a closed oriented surface is cut along a curve into two isometric surfaces with boundary, their Euler characteristics and total Gaussian curvatures agree. Applying Gauss-Bonnet to both halves, whose induced boundary orientations are opposite, gives
∫γ​kg​ds=0.
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