Looking for Gauss-Bonnet counterexample

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Hello everybody! I was looking for a counterexample to Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, that is, a region [tex]R \subset \Sigma[/tex] (with [tex]\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^3[/tex] surface) such that [tex]\partial R[/tex] isn't union of closed piecewise regular curves and for which the Gauss Bonnet Theorem doesn't holds, i.e.
[tex] \iint_R{K \mathrm{d}\sigma} \ne 2\pi\chi(R) - \sum_{i=1}^{p}{\theta_i} - \int_{\partial R}{k_g(s) \mathrm{d}s}[/tex]
Of course, if my question has sense, a definition of [tex]\chi(R)[/tex] should be provided for non-regular regions too... Thank you in advance!
 
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Goklayeh said:
Hello everybody! I was looking for a counterexample to Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, that is, a region [tex]R \subset \Sigma[/tex] (with [tex]\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^3[/tex] surface) such that [tex]\partial R[/tex] isn't union of closed piecewise regular curves and for which the Gauss Bonnet Theorem doesn't holds, i.e.
[tex] \iint_R{K \mathrm{d}\sigma} \ne 2\pi\chi(R) - \sum_{i=1}^{p}{\theta_i} - \int_{\partial R}{k_g(s) \mathrm{d}s}[/tex]
Of course, if my question has sense, a definition of [tex]\chi(R)[/tex] should be provided for non-regular regions too... Thank you in advance!

I am confused. If the boundary is not a union of finitely many piecewise regular curves then there is no notion of geodesic curvature and no notion of exterior angle.
 

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