Geodesic-preserving homothety that is not a local isometry
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Geodesic-preserving homothety that is not a local isometry by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A nonunit Euclidean dilation sends straight-line geodesics to straight-line geodesics but scales their tangent inner products. Preservation of geodesics alone therefore does not imply local isometry.
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