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The aim of the paper is to give upper bounds for the total curvature of smooth curves and surfaces embedded in euclidean space, in terms of other global geometric characters; in particular, for a plane curve γ, we prove the inequality K(γ) < π(2 + f(γ)d(γ)/2), where d(γ) is the geometric degree of γ and f(γ) is the number of its inflection points. In the case of a surface S, a bound is given in terms of the genus g(S), the number of components of the parabolic points on S and the geometry of its apparent contour.
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Benedetti, R., Dedó, M. Global inequalities for curves and surfaces in three-space. Annali di Matematica pura ed applicata 155, 213–241 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01765942
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