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### Does the isometry group determine the Riemannian metric?

I think that you are missing some hypotheses on the action of $G$, otherwise there are trivial counterexamples. For example, if $G\subset\mathrm{Iso}(M,g)$ is the trivial group, then one clearly ...
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### Volume of submanifold as integral of delta-function

One should distinguish between the volume of the submanifold (a number that might be infinite) and the volume form, an exterior differential form $\omega$ of degree $n{-}m$ on the (presumed regular) ...
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### Complex quadric as a symmetric space

So while the projective quadric is indeed a homogeneous space of the form $G/P$ for $P$ parabolic in $G$ (marking it as a generalised flag manifold) this is not the realisation of it as a symmetric ...
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### Pair of laminations that fill on a closed surface

The answer is "no". For consider the case where $L_1 = L_2$ is a single simple closed geodesic. Now you've added the hypothesis that $L_1$ and $L_2$ have no common leaf, the answer becomes ...
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### Ricci scalar of submanifold of $\mathbf R^n$

This is an extended comment answering Ricci scalar of sub-manifold of $\mathbf R^n$ Assuming the $f_i$ are independent, at every point $x$ their gradients span the orthogonal complement to the tangent ...
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### A question on convexity and conjugate points

Here is a proof that works, I think—although it's probably a bit clumsier than necessary. The short version is that the geodesics in $M \setminus \partial M$ are minimizing. This means we can't ...
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