Curvature of a two-dimensional warped metric

ID: curvature-of-a-two-dimensional-warped-metric

For positive twice differentiable , the only nonzero Christoffel symbols are and . In the convention , substitution gives . Dividing by gives the Gaussian curvature . Thus gives the flat metric in polar coordinates away from its axis, gives unit positive curvature, and gives unit negative curvature.

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