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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 3 25I c Solution by
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No. The missing point is not assumed to complete as a smooth surface, so the hypotheses of the global Gauss-Bonnet theorem do not apply to .
For a concrete counterexample, rotate a smooth simple arc , parametrized by arc length for , about the -axis. Arrange that it starts smoothly on the axis,stays in for , and converges to another point of the axis as , withThe endpoint is omitted. The resulting surface of revolution is diffeomorphic to minus one point, and adjoining its limiting endpoint makes the set compact.
For an arc-length surface of revolution,Therefore the total Gaussian curvature of a punctured surface with a singular compactification point iswhich can take values different from . Compactness of the one-point closure alone therefore does not determine the integral.
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