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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 3 25I c ii Solution by
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No such local isometry exists. The curvatures above are strictly monotone functions of and , so curvature preservation would force the -coordinate of any local isometry to beThe first fundamental forms areWrite the putative map as . The mixed coefficient in its pullback isA local isometry is locally nonsingular, so ; matching the zero mixed coefficient of therefore gives . The coefficients would then requireThe left side depends only on , while the right side varies with , an impossibility. Equal pointwise Gaussian curvature under a diffeomorphism therefore does not suffice for local isometry.
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