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No. Take the sphere with $p$ the north pole, and let $U$ be the neighborhood of $0$ in $T_p S^2$ on which $\exp_p$ takes to a diffeomorphism onto $S^2$ without the south pole. Let $\gamma$ be a geod …

Let $\gamma : [0,1] \to \mathbb R^2$ be a finite $C^2$-curve in the plane which does not intersect itself. Let $p(z)$ be a second-degree polynomial in $z \in \mathbb R^2$. Can we construct a Riemann …

Let $g$ and $g'$ be two $C^2$-smooth Riemannian metrics defined on neighborhoods $U$ and $U'$ of $0$ in $\mathbb R^2$, respectively. Suppose furthermore that the scalar curvature at the origin is $K$ …

Let $Q$ be a smooth manifold, and let $G$ be a Lie group which acts smoothly on $Q$ on the left. Question 1: does the group $G$ act naturally on the tangent bundle $TQ \to Q$? My motivation here …

My idea is that if we want to compare $f(p)$ and $f(q)$ for nearby points $p$ and $q$, then we need to be able to put $f(p)$ and $f(q)$ into the same space. To do this, I'm going to assume that $M$ i …

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, $p$ a point on the manifold and $v \in T_p M$. Let $\gamma$ be the geodesic starting at $p$ in the direction $v$. There exists a time $t_f$ such that there exis …

Consider a "bump surface" which looks like the following: Such a surface is rotationally symmetric, $C^2$-smooth, has positive curvature in the middle and negative curvature along the ring (the ora …

Let $M$ be a differentiable manifold, let $TM$ be its tangent bundle, and consider $TTM$, the double tangent bundle. Let $V \subseteq TTM$ denote the vertical subbundle, which is determined in a cano …

Let $M$ be a smooth manifold, and let $TM$ denote its tangent bundle. Under what conditions does $TM$ admit a flat connection $\omega$? Edit: Formerly, I asked about a flat connection on the frame …

Let $g$ be a Riemannian metric on the $d$-dimensional flat space $\mathbb R^d$, and consider the usual Lagrangian $$L(x, \dot x) = \tfrac 1 2 g_{ij}(x) \dot x^i \dot x^j.$$ Let $\hat g := \sqrt g$ de …

Let $M$ be a smooth $n$-dimensional manifold, and let $FM = GL(M)$ indicate its tangent frame bundle. Let $G$ be a fixed linear subgroup of $GL(n)$, and consider the space $\mathcal S$ of all $G$-str …

Let $G$ be a Lie group, and let $\mathcal B(G)$ its Borel $\sigma$-algebra. Suppose that $f : G \to G$ is a Borel-measurable homomorphism. Is $f$ smooth? Edit: My original question said "measurable …

In this post on the n-Category Café, Urs Schreiber says that, "The theory of G-principal bundles makes sense in any $(\infty,1)$-topos." I followed the link to the nLab and tried to chase definitions, …

Let $K(r)$ be the piecewise function                                              I want to solve the PDE $$\Delta u + K(|x|) e^{2u} = 0$$ for radially symmetric $u$ with boundary condition $u = 0$ …

Let $\operatorname{Klein}$ denote the category of principal homogeneous bundles. An object in this category is a tuple $\mathbf Q = (Q, P; G, H; q, a, \tilde a)$, where: $G$ is a Lie group, and $H$ …