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Intuition for the volume form - combinatorial definition?

I apologize that this is short of research level but I have realized that I am not happy with my understanding of the volume form on an oriented Riemannian manifold and I was hoping to find some ...
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When is the cut locus a finite tree?

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbf{R}^2$ be a bounded, simply connected domain, with a regular boundary, say of class $C^2$ at least. Let the cut locus $C$ of $\Omega$ be the set of points $x \in \Omega$ for ...
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A higher-dimensional "line of curvature"?

Let $M$ be a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold $Q$, and let $\Gamma$ be a $d$-dimensional submanifold of $M$, i.e., $\Gamma^{d} \subset M \subset Q$. Suppose that, for all (unit) normal vectors of $...
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The classification of developable surfaces: Are these statements equivalent?

This is a cross-post from MSE (https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4330772/242708). I thought to know very well the answer to the classification problem for developable surfaces, so I sought for some ...
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Hypersurfaces whose unit normal $N$ satisfies $[N,X] =0$ for every tangent vector field $X$

Let $M$ be a hypersurface of a Riemannian manifold, and assume that $M$ satisfies the following property: For each $p \in M$, given a unit normal vector field $N$ defined in a neighborhood $U$ of $...
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Positive curvature of the boundary away from a point implies regularity?

In a paper I'm refereeing, the authors make use of the following geometric fact: Let $U$ be an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$. If there is a point $p\in \partial U$ so that $\partial U \backslash p$ ...
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