Paper 4, Section II, I
Let be a surface.
(a) Define what it means for a curve to be a geodesic, where and .
(b) A geodesic is said to be maximal if any geodesic with and satisfies . A surface is said to be geodesically complete if all maximal geodesics are defined on , otherwise, the surface is said to be geodesically incomplete. Give an example, with justification, of a non-compact geodesically complete surface which is not a plane.
(c) Assume that along any maximal geodesic
the following holds:
Here denotes the Gaussian curvature of .
(i) Show that is inextendible, i.e. if is a connected surface with , then .
(ii) Give an example of a surface which is geodesically incomplete and satisfies . Do all geodesically incomplete inextendible surfaces satisfy ? Justify your answer.
[You may use facts about geodesics from the course provided they are clearly stated.]