Additivity of line integrals under concatenation
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Statement
Let and be piecewise curves with . Let be their concatenation: on and on . For each continuous vector field and each continuous function on the image of ,
Remarks
Proof: apply the parametric formula on and split the integral at . If the parameter intervals do not match, first shift the parameter of . A shift does not change line integrals. Together with path reversal, this lets one compute line integrals over the boundary of a polygon, side by side. The concatenation is often written or .
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- Euclidean space object
- Function concept
- Fréchet derivative definition
- Function of several variables concept
- Vector-valued function concept
- Limit of a function of several variables concept
- Continuity in R^n definition
- Differentiable function of several variables definition
- Partial derivative definition
- Differentiable on an open set definition
- Higher partial derivatives definition
- Iterated derivative definition
- C^k function characterised by continuous derivatives statement
- Parametrised curve definition
- Vector field definition
- Rectifiable curve definition
- Tangent vector of a curve definition
- Line integral of a scalar field definition
- Line integral of a vector field definition
- Regular curve definition
- Arc length parametrisation definition
- Line integral as an integral over the parameter interval statement
- Additivity of line integrals under concatenation statement
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- Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_integral, Line integral of a vector field
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| Aliases | line-integral-over-a-sum-of-paths |
| Kind | statement, proposition |
| Writing | W0 stub |
| MSC | 26B12 |
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| Uses | Line integral of a vector field, Line integral of a scalar field, Line integral as an integral over the parameter interval |
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