Stanley–Wilf conjecture

In the study of Riemannian geometry in mathematics, a local isometry from one (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold to another is a map which pulls back the metric tensor on the second manifold to the metric tensor on the first. When such a map is also a diffeomorphism, such a map is called an isometry (or isometric isomorphism), and provides a notion of isomorphism ("sameness") in the category Rm of Riemannian manifolds.

Definition

Let $(M,g)$ and $(M^{\prime },g^{\prime })$ be two Riemannian manifolds, and let $f:M\to M^{\prime }$ be a diffeomorphism. Then $f$ is called an isometry (or isometric isomorphism) if

$g=f^{*}{g}^{\prime },$

where $f^{*}{g}^{\prime }$ denotes the pullback of the rank (0, 2) metric tensor $g^{\prime }$ by $f$. Equivalently, in terms of the push-forward $f_{*}$, we have that for any two vector fields $v,w$ on $M$ (i.e. sections of the tangent bundle $\mathrm{T}M$),

$g(v,w)=g^{\prime }(f_{*}v,f_{*}w).$

If $f$ is a local diffeomorphism such that $g=f^{*}{g}^{\prime }$, then $f$ is called a local isometry.

See also

• Myers–Steenrod theorem

References

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