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Dick Palais
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Consider the example of a right circular cylinder as the surface in question and let $C$ be a "generator" (i.e., a line on the cylinder parallel to the axis). Then the geodesic curvature is everywhere zero, but if epsilon is greater than half the circumference there is no epsilon-tubular neighborhood.

Dick Palais
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