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Local isometries are determined by first-order data

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Two local isometries from a connected Riemannian manifold that have the same value and differential at one point agree everywhere. They preserve geodesics, so their equality follows on a normal neighborhood from f(expp​v)=expf(p)​(dfp​v). The set of points where both value and differential agree is consequently open, and continuity makes it closed. Connectedness completes the argument.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2003 / iii / Paper 16 / 2 / a / Solution

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