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Oriented Riemannian surface and positive quarter-turn

Definition

An oriented Riemannian surface is an oriented smooth two-manifold $M$ equipped with a Riemannian metric $g$ . Its positive quarter-turn is the bundle map $J : T M \to T M$ specified locally by $J E_{1} = E_{2}, J E_{2} = - E_{1}$ for any positively oriented $g$ -orthonormal frame $(E_{1}, E_{2})$ . Equivalently, at each $p \in M$ , $J_{p}$ is the unique $g_{p}$ -isometry satisfying $J_{p}^{2} = - I$ and making $(v, J_{p} v)$ positively oriented for every nonzero $v \in T_{p} M$ .

Reversing the surface orientation replaces $J$ by $- J$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: An oriented smooth two-manifold and a supplied Riemannian metric.

[F1]

An orientation is a smooth choice of a ray in each determinant line for every point (Oriented smooth manifolds and oriented charts).

[F2]

A Riemannian metric is smooth and positive definite on each tangent space (Riemannian metric and riemannian manifold).

Proof

1.1F1F2

By [F1], choose a smooth local positive frame. Gram–Schmidt using the supplied positive-definite metric [F2] gives a smooth positive orthonormal frame $(E_{1}, E_{2})$ on that neighborhood.

2.1step 1.1

Set $J E_{1} = E_{2}$ and $J E_{2} = - E_{1}$ . Any other positive orthonormal frame is $(E_{1}^{'}, E_{2}^{'}) = (E_{1}, E_{2}) R$ for $R \in S O (2)$ ; every such planar rotation commutes with the standard quarter-turn matrix, so the local definitions agree on overlaps and define one smooth bundle map $J$ .

3.1step 2.1

The defining matrix is orthogonal and squares to $- I$ . For $v = a E_{1} + b E_{2} \neq 0$ , the oriented determinant of $(v, J v)$ is $a^{2} + b^{2} > 0$ . Thus $J$ is an isometry, $J^{2} = - I$ , and each $(v, J v)$ is positive.

4.1step 2.1step 3.1∎

If $A$ is another isometry with $A^{2} = - I$ and the same orientation property, then $A E_{1}$ has unit length and $g (A E_{1}, E_{1}) = g (A E_{1}, A (- A E_{1})) = g (E_{1}, - A E_{1})$ , so this inner product is zero. Therefore $A E_{1} = \pm E_{2}$ ; positivity forces $A E_{1} = E_{2}$ , and $A^{2} E_{1} = - E_{1}$ gives $A E_{2} = - E_{1}$ . Thus $A = J$ . Reversing orientation changes the positive determinant condition's sign and gives $- J$ .

Source locator

Lee, Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature, Chapter 9, § “The Gauss–Bonnet Formula,” printed pp. 162–165, sets up the formula using a positively oriented orthonormal frame. Datar, Lectures on Riemannian Geometry, Lectures 1–2, printed pp. 3–15, uses the same positive-frame convention. The construction and its uniqueness are checked directly above; Lee’s later connection-form sign convention is recorded separately on the connection-form item.

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Used by

Wrong boundary orientation reverses the disk term Counterexample
Connection one-form of an oriented orthonormal frame Definition
Signed exterior angle at an ordinary corner Definition
Signed geodesic curvature Definition
Euclidean annulus boundary signs Example
Euclidean disk boundary curvature Example
A boundary term is necessary False statement
Finite frameable decomposition of a regular disk region Lemma
Signs of geodesic curvature under reversals Proposition
Tangent-angle formula for geodesic curvature Proposition
Finite geodesic triangulation of a compact Riemannian surface Theorem

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Sources

John M. Lee, Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature, Chapter 9 (standard reference, not scraped)
Ved Datar, Lectures on Riemannian Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)