The bi-Lipschitz constant of an isothermal coordinate chart
Differential Geometry
2025-05-30 v1 Metric Geometry
Abstract
Let be a -smooth Riemannian surface. A classical theorem in differential geometry states that the Gauss curvature function 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 is a Riemannian disc of radius with for some , then there is an isothermal coordinate map from onto an Euclidean disc of radius which is bi-Lipschitz with constant .
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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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14 pages