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Oct3-10, 10:58 PM   #1
 

Question about Curvature


hello....

is it possible that we have a hypersurface of a manifold with non-zero Intrinsic curvature but have a zero extrinsic curvature?
(the second fundamental form of the hypersurface is zero)

thanks....
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