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Surface (physics)

In Physics, a surface is a set of elements with pairwise measured distance d, satisfying the following properties:

such that for all elements T with d( T, A ) < d( K, A ) holds
Vol( A, J, K, T ) / Area( A, J, K ) ≤ ½ Vol( A, B, C, Q ) / Area( A, B, C ).

Here Vol(), as a function of four elements, denotes the Volume of the corresponding 3-simplex (i.e. tetrahedron), expressed in terms of the six distance values (pairwise) between these four elements by Tartaglia's formula; and Area() , as a function of three elements, denotes the Area of the corresponding 2-simplex (i.e. triangle), expressed in terms of the three distance values (measured pairwise) between these three elements by Heron's formula.

In topology as applicable to physics, a surface is a topological space which satisfies for any three elements: