Paper 4, Section II, F

Geometry | Part IB, 2010

Suppose that DD is the unit disc, with Riemannian metric

ds2=dx2+dy21(x2+y2)d s^{2}=\frac{d x^{2}+d y^{2}}{1-\left(x^{2}+y^{2}\right)}

[Note that this is not a multiple of the Poincaré metric.] Show that the diameters of DD are, with appropriate parametrization, geodesics.

Show that distances between points in DD are bounded, but areas of regions in DD are unbounded.

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