A2.7
Part II, 2003
(i) What are geodesic polar coordinates at a point on a surface with a Riemannian metric ?
Assume that
for geodesic polar coordinates and some function . What can you say about and at ?
(ii) Given that the Gaussian curvature may be computed by the formula , show that for small the area of the geodesic disc of radius centred at is
where is a function satisfying .