词条 | Menger curvature |
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In mathematics, the Menger curvature of a triple of points in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn is the reciprocal of the radius of the circle that passes through the three points. It is named after the Austrian-American mathematician Karl Menger. DefinitionLet x, y and z be three points in Rn; for simplicity, assume for the moment that all three points are distinct and do not lie on a single straight line. Let Π ⊆ Rn be the Euclidean plane spanned by x, y and z and let C ⊆ Π be the unique Euclidean circle in Π that passes through x, y and z (the circumcircle of x, y and z). Let R be the radius of C. Then the Menger curvature c(x, y, z) of x, y and z is defined by If the three points are collinear, R can be informally considered to be +∞, and it makes rigorous sense to define c(x, y, z) = 0. If any of the points x, y and z are coincident, again define c(x, y, z) = 0. Using the well-known formula relating the side lengths of a triangle to its area, it follows that where A denotes the area of the triangle spanned by x, y and z. Another way of computing Menger curvature is the identity where is the angle made at the y-corner of the triangle spanned by x,y,z. Menger curvature may also be defined on a general metric space. If X is a metric space and x,y, and z are distinct points, let f be an isometry from into . Define the Menger curvature of these points to be Note that f need not be defined on all of X, just on {x,y,z}, and the value cX (x,y,z) is independent of the choice of f. Integral Curvature RectifiabilityMenger curvature can be used to give quantitative conditions for when sets in may be rectifiable. For a Borel measure on a Euclidean space define
The basic intuition behind the result is that Menger curvature measures how straight a given triple of points are (the smaller is, the closer x,y, and z are to being collinear), and this integral quantity being finite is saying that the set E is flat on most small scales. In particular, if the power in the integral is larger, our set is smoother than just being rectifiable[2]
In the opposite direction, there is a result of Peter Jones:[4]
Analogous results hold in general metric spaces:[5] See also
External links
|url=http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/people/leymarie/Notes/CurvSurf/MengerCurv/index.html |title=Notes on Menger Curvature |last=Leymarie |first=F. |accessdate=2007-11-19 |date=September 2003 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821103738/http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/people/leymarie/Notes/CurvSurf/MengerCurv/index.html |archivedate=2007-08-21 |deadurl=yes |df= }} References1. ^{{cite journal | last = Leger | first = J. | title =Menger curvature and rectifiability | journal = Annals of Mathematics | volume = 149 | pages = 831–869 | year = 1999 | url = http://www.emis.de/journals/Annals/149_3/leger.pdf | issue = 3 | doi = 10.2307/121074 | jstor = 121074 | publisher = Annals of Mathematics| arxiv = math/9905212}} 2. ^{{cite journal |author1=Pawl Strzelecki |author2=Marta Szumanska |author3=Heiko von der Mosel | title =Regularizing and self-avoidance effects of integral Menger curvature | journal = Institut f¨ur Mathematik }} 3. ^{{cite journal | last = Yong Lin and Pertti Mattila | title =Menger curvature and regularity of fractals | journal = Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society | volume = 129 | pages = 1755–1762 | year = 2000 | url = http://www.ams.org/proc/2001-129-06/S0002-9939-00-05814-7/S0002-9939-00-05814-7.pdf | issue = 6 | doi=10.1090/s0002-9939-00-05814-7}} 4. ^{{cite book | last = Pajot | first = H. | title =Analytic Capacity, Rectifiability, Menger Curvature and the Cauchy Integral | publisher = Springer| year = 2000 | isbn = 3-540-00001-1}} 5. ^{{cite journal | last = Schul | first = Raanan | title =Ahlfors-regular curves in metric spaces | journal = Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ | volume = 32 | pages = 437–460 | year = 2007 | url =http://www.acadsci.fi/mathematica/Vol32/vol32pp437-460.pdf}}
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