Counterexamples for Local Isometric Embedding
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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