The model sector's crossing angle is its opening angle #
TauCeti.Contour.crossingAngle reads the opening angle at a crossing off the two one-sided
tangent limits, and TauCeti.Contour.windingNumber_closedModelSector gives the model sector of
opening α winding number α / 2π about its corner. Nothing connected the two: the winding
value was stated in terms of the parameter α, and the crossing angle in terms of tangents,
with no theorem saying they agree.
This file supplies that bridge. crossingAngle_modelSector holds for every real α: the
crossing angle at the corner is the [0, 2π) normalisation of α, which is α itself exactly
when 0 ≤ α < 2π. Under those bounds,
windingNumber_closedModelSector_eq_crossingAngle_div_two_pi then restates the winding number
about the corner as the crossing angle over 2π, with no reference to the parametrisation.
That is the shape a general curve can be compared against, since a curve is tangent to a model sector without being equal to one.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.Contour.crossingAngle_modelSector: the model sector of openingαhas crossing angleαat its corner — stated for every realαas the[0, 2π)normalisation ofα, which isαitself exactly when0 ≤ α < 2π.TauCeti.Contour.windingNumber_closedModelSector_eq_crossingAngle_div_two_pi: hence its winding number about the corner iscrossingAngle / (2π).
References #
- N. Hungerbühler, M. Wasem, Non-integer valued winding numbers and a generalized Residue Theorem, arXiv:1808.00997 — the model sector is their equation (2.4), and the crossing-angle reading of its index is what this file supplies.
The model sector's crossing angle is its opening angle. At the corner the incoming
tangent is -exp((φ + α)i) and the outgoing one is exp(φ i), so the normalised angle from the
exit ray to the reversed entry ray is α itself — for 0 ≤ α < 2π, the range on which the
opening angle determines the sector.
The model sector's winding number, read off its crossing angle. Combining
windingNumber_closedModelSector with crossingAngle_modelSector: the winding number about the
corner is the crossing angle over 2π, with no reference to the parametrisation.