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Clairaut first integral for a surface of revolution
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For a geodesic in the metric
d
u
2
+
Y
(
u
)
2
d
v
2
, the cyclic coordinate
v
gives
Y
(
u
)
2
v
˙
=
constant
.
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Equivalently, the geodesic meets parallels according to Clairaut's relation.
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