orientation
(0.001 seconds)
8 matching pages
1: Preface
2: 1.6 Vectors and Vector-Valued Functions
3: 21.1 Special Notation
positive integers. | |
… | |
intersection index of and , two cycles lying on a closed surface. if and do not intersect. Otherwise gets an additive contribution from every intersection point. This contribution is if the basis of the tangent vectors of the and cycles (§21.7(i)) at the point of intersection is positively oriented; otherwise it is . | |
… |
4: 21.7 Riemann Surfaces
5: 23.22 Methods of Computation
In the general case, given by , we compute the roots , , , say, of the cubic equation ; see §1.11(iii). These roots are necessarily distinct and represent , , in some order.
If and are real, and the discriminant is positive, that is , then , , can be identified via (23.5.1), and , obtained from (23.6.16).
If , or and are not both real, then we label , , so that the triangle with vertices , , is positively oriented and is its longest side (chosen arbitrarily if there is more than one). In particular, if , , are collinear, then we label them so that is on the line segment . In consequence, , satisfy (with strict inequality unless , , are collinear); also , .
Finally, on taking the principal square roots of and we obtain values for and that lie in the 1st and 4th quadrants, respectively, and , are given by
where denotes the arithmetic-geometric mean (see §§19.8(i) and 22.20(ii)). This process yields 2 possible pairs (, ), corresponding to the 2 possible choices of the square root.