APPROXIMATION OF THE DISTANCE IN THE SPHERE THROUGH OF THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM ASSOCIATED TO GEODESICS

Abstract

In this paper, we proposes an algorithm to approximate the Geodesic distance between points p and q of sphere, through the numerical solution of initial value problem associated with the system of ordinary differential equations of the geodesics; for this an appropriate direction is obtained.

Keywords

• Intrinsec distance
• geodesic distance
• geodesics
• sphere
• initial value problem
• approximation