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Counterexamples for Local Isometric Embedding

Nikolai Nadirashvili, Yu Yuan

math.DGarXiv:math/0208127

Abstract

We construct smooth metrics on 2-manifold with nonpositive Gauss curvature which cannot be (C3) locally isometrically embedded in R3. Moreover, the Gauss curvature of the metric can be made negative except for one point.

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