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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 4 25I b Solution by
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Take the circular cylinderIts first fundamental form is . The universal covering parametrization is therefore a local isometry from the Euclidean plane, after scaling the first coordinate. By geodesic preservation by a local isometry, every geodesic on the cylinder lifts to a straight line defined for all . Thus the cylinder is geodesically complete. It is noncompact because is unbounded, and it is not a plane because one of its principal curvatures is .
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