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Constant Gaussian curvature one gives $f^{\prime \prime }+f=0$, so, after a shift of the arc-length parameter, $f=C\cos u$ with $C>0$ on an interval contained in $(-\pi /2,\pi /2)$. To close the surface by adding only two points, the limiting parallels at both ends must collapse to points on the axis. If an end had limiting radius $f>0$, it would contribute a whole missing circle, which two added points cannot supply. Thus the parameter interval is the full interval between consecutive zeros, and its two ends are $u=\pm \pi /2$.

At a smooth axis point the tangent plane of a surface of revolution is invariant under all rotations about the axis, so it must be horizontal. The unit meridian tangent must consequently have $g^{\prime }\to 0$ and $|f^{\prime }|\to 1$ there. But $|f^{\prime }(\pm \pi /2)|=C$, so smoothness forces $C=1$. The arc-length identity also illustrates the alternatives: $C>1$ prevents reaching either zero with real $g^{\prime }$, while $0<C<1$ gives a nonhorizontal limiting meridian and a conical singularity.

Now $g^{\prime 2}=1-f^{\prime 2}={\cos }^{2}u$. On the connected interior, $g^{\prime }$ has one fixed sign because $\cos u>0$. Therefore $g=g_0\pm \sin u$, andThe revolved surface is the unit sphere centered at $(0,0,g_0)$, with only its two poles $(0,0,g_0\pm 1)$ omitted. Those points are antipodal. This proves the claim using smooth endpoint criterion for a surface of revolution, without integrating a general square root.

Because $f^{\prime }(a)$ and $f^{\prime }(b)$ are nonzero, $r=f(v)$ is a valid one-sided local coordinate at each endpoint. Defineusing the inverse near $a$, and define $h_b$ analogously near $b$. The necessary and sufficient conditions are:

Indeed, the second condition makes the surface near the corresponding pole the graphwhich is a smooth regular graph over the horizontal tangent plane. Together with part a(i), these two pole charts cover the closure by regular surface charts. The surface is compact because it is the continuous image of the compact cylinder $[0,2\pi ]\times [a,b]$ after each boundary circle is collapsed to its pole.

Conversely, rotational invariance forces the tangent plane at a pole to be horizontal. The surface is therefore locally the graph of a smooth radial function of $(x,y)$. A smooth rotation-invariant function near the origin is a smooth function of $x^2+y^2$, which gives the displayed condition. The poles must be distinct, since otherwise a punctured neighbourhood of their common image would have two components and could not be a surface chart. This is the smooth endpoint criterion for a surface of revolution. In particular it implies the familiar first-order conditions $g^{\prime }(a)=g^{\prime }(b)=0$, but those conditions alone do not ensure smoothness of every order.