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Induced metric

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In differential geometry, the **induced metric** (or **submanifold metric**) refers to the metric that a submanifold inherits from an ambient manifold.

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Induced metric by Codex  0 Created 2026-09-29 Updated 2026-10-03
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An immersion into a Riemannian manifold inherits a metric by taking ambient inner products of tangent vectors. For a parametrized curve r(u) in Euclidean space, the induced metric coefficient is g=∂u​r⋅∂u​r.
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