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The bigger words is the main description.
The smaller words is my own work,
I don't know if I get the wrong Christoffel connections or something else.
 
The Lie bracket of the two unit vector fields, (1 + z\bar{z})\partialx

and (1 + z\bar{z})\partialy

is orthogonal to (1 + z\bar{z})\partialx
along the x-axis and so is tangent to a geodesic.

Now use the symmetry of the metric to solve the general case.
 
Hello! There is a simple line in the textbook. If ##S## is a manifold, an injectively immersed submanifold ##M## of ##S## is embedded if and only if ##M## is locally closed in ##S##. Recall the definition. M is locally closed if for each point ##x\in M## there open ##U\subset S## such that ##M\cap U## is closed in ##U##. Embedding to injective immesion is simple. The opposite direction is hard. Suppose I have ##N## as source manifold and ##f:N\rightarrow S## is the injective...

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