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On Finding Geodesic Equation of Normal Distribution and Gaussian Curvature
Department of Statistics, The George Washington University, Washington, USA
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Applied Mathematics·Volume 08 (2017)·Pages 1336–1342·Published 5 September 2017·DOI10.4236/am.2017.89098
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Abstract
In this paper, we apply two different algorithms to find the geodesic equation of the normal distribution. The first algorithm consists of solving a triply partial differential equation where these equations originated from the normal distribution. While the second algorithm applies the well-known Darboux Theory. These two algorithms draw the same geodesic equation. Finally, we applied Baltzer R.’s finding to compute the Gaussian Curvature.
KeywordsDarboux TheoryDifferential GeometryGeodesic EquationPartial Differential EquationNormal Distribution
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