Paper 4, Section II, H
Part II, 2010
(i) Let be a regular surface. Define the notions exponential map, geodesic polar coordinates, geodesic circles.
(ii) State and prove Gauss' lemma.
(iii) Let be a regular surface. For fixed , and points in , let , denote the geodesic circles around , respectively, of radius . Show the following statement: for each , there exists an and a neighborhood containing such that for all , the sets and are smooth 1-dimensional manifolds which intersect transversally. What is the cardinality of ?