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Complex, contact, Riemannian, pseudo-Riemannian and Finsler geometry, relativity, gauge theory, global analysis.

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Distance metric on the unit sphere in R^3?

Suppose the unit sphere in ℝ3 has coordinates (ρ, η) with ρ as the "co-latitude" angle (measured from positive z-axis) and η as the "longitude" angle measured from positive x-axis in the xy plane. I a …