Paper 4, Section II, I

Differential Geometry | Part II, 2017

Let SR3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} be a surface and pSp \in S. Define the exponential map exp pp and compute its differential dexpp0\left.d \exp _{p}\right|_{0}. Deduce that expp\exp _{p} is a local diffeomorphism.

Give an example of a surface SS and a point pSp \in S for which the exponential map expp\exp _{p} fails to be defined globally on TpST_{p} S. Can this failure be remedied by extending the surface? In other words, for any such SS, is there always a surface SS^R3S \subset \widehat{S} \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} such that the exponential map exp^p\widehat{\exp }_{p} defined with respect to S^\widehat{S}is globally defined on TpS=TpS^T_{p} S=T_{p} \widehat{S}?

State the version of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem with boundary term for a surface SR3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} and a closed disc DSD \subset S whose boundary D\partial D can be parametrized as a smooth closed curve in SS.

Let SR3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} be a flat surface, i.e. K=0K=0. Can there exist a closed disc DSD \subset S, whose boundary D\partial D can be parametrized as a smooth closed curve, and a surface S~R3\tilde{S} \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} such that all of the following hold:

(i) (S\D)DS~(S \backslash D) \cup \partial D \subset \tilde{S};

(ii) letting D~\tilde{D} be (S~\(S\D))D(\tilde{S} \backslash(S \backslash D)) \cup \partial D, we have that D~\tilde{D} is a closed disc in S~\tilde{S} with boundary D~=D\partial \tilde{D}=\partial D

(iii) the Gaussian curvature K~\tilde{K} of S~\tilde{S} satisfies K~0\tilde{K} \geqslant 0, and there exists a pS~p \in \tilde{S} such that K~(p)>0\tilde{K}(p)>0 ?

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