 Geodesic-preserving homothety that is not a local isometry (source code)

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= Geodesic-preserving homothety that is not a local isometry

A nonunit Euclidean dilation sends straight-line geodesics to straight-line geodesics but scales their tangent inner products. Preservation of geodesics alone therefore does not imply local isometry.

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