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The bi-Lipschitz constant of an isothermal coordinate chart

Differential Geometry 2025-05-30 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let MM be a C2C^{2}-smooth Riemannian surface. A classical theorem in differential geometry states that the Gauss curvature function K:MRK : M \to \mathbb{R} vanishes everywhere if and only if the surface is locally isometric to the Euclidean plane. We give an asymptotically sharp quantitative version of this theorem with respect to an isothermal coordinate chart. Roughly speaking, we show that if BB is a Riemannian disc of radius δ>0\delta > 0 with δ2supBK<ε\delta^{2}\sup_{B}|K| < \varepsilon for some 0<ε<10 < \varepsilon < 1, then there is an isothermal coordinate map from BB onto an Euclidean disc of radius δ\delta which is bi-Lipschitz with constant exp(4ε)\exp(4 \varepsilon).

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@article{arxiv.2505.23591,
  title  = {The bi-Lipschitz constant of an isothermal coordinate chart},
  author = {Matan Eilat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23591},
  year   = {2025}
}

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