Paper 4, Section II, I

Differential Geometry | Part II, 2017

Let S⊂R3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} be a surface and p∈Sp \in S. Define the exponential map exp pp and compute its differential dexp⁡p∣0\left.d \exp _{p}\right|_{0}. Deduce that exp⁡p\exp _{p} is a local diffeomorphism.

Give an example of a surface SS and a point p∈Sp \in S for which the exponential map exp⁡p\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 S⊂S^⊂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 S⊂R3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} and a closed disc D⊂SD \subset S whose boundary ∂D\partial D can be parametrized as a smooth closed curve in SS.

Let S⊂R3S \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} be a flat surface, i.e. K=0K=0. Can there exist a closed disc D⊂SD \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)∪∂D⊂S~(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 p∈S~p \in \tilde{S} such that K~(p)>0\tilde{K}(p)>0 ?

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