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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 50 1 c i Solution by
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The two coordinate tangent vectors of the embedding areTheir Euclidean inner products give the pullback of a Riemannian metric, equivalently the induced metric:Locally set . The line element becomes , so the induced Riemann curvature tensor vanishes identically. This is the intrinsic flatness of a circular cylinder. Its bending in the ambient space is extrinsic curvature, not intrinsic curvature; periodicity of the angular coordinate does not change the local flatness.
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