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Riemannian Rigidity of the Parallel Postulate in Total Curvature

Differential Geometry 2016-11-24 v1

Abstract

We prove that the Euclidean plane is the only Riemannian plane with total curvature and free of conjugate points that satisfies Playfair's version of the parallel postulate.

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@article{arxiv.1611.07761,
  title  = {Riemannian Rigidity of the Parallel Postulate in Total Curvature},
  author = {Jian Ge and Luis Guijarro and Pedro Solórzano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07761},
  year   = {2016}
}