HOMEWORK #3 – MATH 568, SUNYSB, FALL 2001, TAPP
(1) Read chapter 3 of Do Carmo: “Geodesics and convex neighborhoods”.
(2) Let and be connected Riemannian manifolds. Let be two isometries from to . Suppose that for one point , and . Prove that .
(3) Suppose that a metric on in local coordinates has the form . This means that , , and . Show that all curves =constant are geodesics.
(4) Do Carmo, chapter 3, problem 1 (surfaces of revolution).
(5) Do Carmo, chapter 3, problems 5 and 6 (Killing fields).






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