Incomplete positively curved strip with infinite diameter

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Incomplete positively curved strip with infinite diameter by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
This metric pulls back the round spherical metric by . It has unit Gaussian curvature and Ricci curvature equal to its metric, yet the meridian reaches a missing boundary in finite time. Every curve between and has length at least , so its diameter is infinite. It shows that the positive Ricci bound alone does not replace geodesic completeness in the Bonnet-Myers theorem.

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