Incomplete surface z equals r to three halves

ID: incomplete-surface-z-equals-r-to-three-halves

The surface of revolution
is geodesically incomplete: a meridian reaches the missing origin in finite length. Its Gaussian curvature, computed using the curvatures of a parametrized surface of revolution, is
which tends to infinity as . Every finite-time endpoint of a constant-speed geodesic must approach the origin, the only finite point in the ambient closure missing from , so this surface satisfies the curvature-blowup criterion.

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