subset of sphere defined by inequalities

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I need to draw several geodesics on a subset of a unit sphere, namely the set of all points with z-coordinate -0.5<z&lt;0.5< p="">

1)How do I define the object?

A = sphere((0,0,0), 1)

How to cut off the domain that i need? I'm a complete novice and failed to find the answer in the documentation.

2) What's the right way to draw a segment of a big circle between two points on a sphere given in spherical coordinates?