Local isometries are determined by first-order data

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Two local isometries from a connected Riemannian manifold that have the same value and differential at one point agree everywhere. They preserve geodesics, so their equality follows on a normal neighborhood from . The set of points where both value and differential agree is consequently open, and continuity makes it closed. Connectedness completes the argument.

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