Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-geometry-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/3/c/solution

Using the two first fundamental forms calculated below, choose
The surface of revolution is then a catenoid, with metric . On the helicoid, take , assuming so that its parametrization is regular. Substitution gives
Thus the coordinate map
is a local isometry on sufficiently small patches. The constant only changes the radial parametrization of the given helicoid, whose pitch is fixed at one. For the displayed helicoid parametrization is not a regular surface.

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