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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge

2026

Paper 306

For the circular embedding,
$$
\gamma_{\tau\tau}=-1+\dot R^2,
\qquad
\gamma_{\tau\sigma}=0,
\qquad
\gamma_{\sigma\sigma}=R^2.
$$
On $R=R_0\cos(\tau/R_0)$ this becomes
$$
(\gamma_{\alpha\beta})
=\cos^2\left(\frac{\tau}{R_0}\right)
\begin{pmatrix}
-1&0\\
0&R_0^2
\end{pmatrix}.
$$
Thus the worldsheet metric is conformally flat between collapse events and becomes degenerate at the instant when the loop shrinks to zero size.

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