Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-19/5/3/solution

The base Riemannian metrics satisfy in the smooth topology, and the fixed smooth covering maps pull this convergence back to both . Although the base has cone points, each lifted chart is an ordinary smooth chart, so convergence holds there as well. The fixed isometry used to mark the second limit gives
The area normalizations multiply by constants tending to one and therefore do not change these limits. There are precisely two sequences, indexed by ; the appearance of in the printed last condition is a redundant indexing error, not a requirement for additional families. The common limit is isometric even though every finite pair is nonisometric, because the hyperbolic limit recovers the reflection symmetry broken by the locally rigid perturbations.

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