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Volume density in polar coordinates

Example

In a polar chart of the Euclidean plane, the density is rdrdθ and the positive-oriented volume form is rdrdθ.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: x=rcosθ, y=rsinθ, with r>0 and θ in an open interval of length less than 2π.

[F1]

Riemannian volume density: The Riemannian volume density is μg=detGxdx1dxn in coordinates. The matrix is that of prop-coordinate-criterion-for-a-riemannian-metric, so its determinant is positive and smooth. The density frames and their absolute-Jacobian law are def-density-bundle-and-smooth-density. In dimension zero take the empty determinant to be one, giving weight one at every point, independently of orientation. The compatibility of these local formulas is proved in lem-the-riemannian-volume-density-is-coordinate-independent.

[F2]

The riemannian volume density is coordinate independent: The local Riemannian volume densities glue to a positive smooth density independent of coordinates.

Verification

technique · direct
1.1

Differentiation gives dx=cosθdrrsinθdθ and dy=sinθdr+rcosθdθ. Expanding dx2+dy2, the mixed terms cancel and the diagonal terms sum to dr2+r2dθ2. Thus detG=r2, whose positive square root is r on this domain, and the density is rdrdθ.

F1given
2.1

The wedge expansion gives dxdy=r(cos2θ+sin2θ)drdθ=rdrdθ. The Jacobian is positive, so the chart has the standard orientation and this is its positive volume form. The absolute Jacobian density law agrees with step 1.1. At r=2, both coordinate coefficients are 2. The excluded value r=0 is a failure of polar coordinates, not a zero of the Euclidean density.

F2step 1.1

Source locator

Lee, Example 13.12, p.332, polar metric; Proposition 15.31, p.390, coordinate volume formula; pp.430–431, Riemannian density.

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