Counterexamples for Local Isometric Embedding

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Yu Yuan, Nikolai Nadirashvili

Publication date: 15 August 2002

Abstract: We construct smooth metrics on 2-manifold with nonpositive Gauss curvature which cannot be (C^3) locally isometrically embedded in R^3. Moreover, the Gauss curvature of the metric can be made negative except for one point.













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