Geometry and topology · Oct 6, 2026
A smooth surface metric with no local isometric immersion in ℝ3
Constructs a smooth positive-definite metric on for which no neighborhood of the origin admits a smooth isometric immersion into ℝ3. This answers the unrestricted smooth local isometric realization problem for surfaces negatively, even after shrinking the neighborhood.
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