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In geometry, the Clifton–Pohl torus is an example of a compact Lorentzian manifold that is not geodesically complete. While every compact Riemannian manifold is also geodesically complete (by the Hopf–Rinow theorem), this space shows that the same implication does not generalize to pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.〔.〕 It is named after Yeaton H. Clifton and William F. Pohl, who described it in 1962 but did not publish their result.〔.〕 ==Definition== Consider the manifold with the metric : Any homothety is an isometry of , in particular including the map: : Let be the subgroup of the isometry group generated by . Then has a proper, discontinuous action on . Hence the quotient which is topologically the torus, is a Lorentz surface that is called the Clifton-Pohl torus.〔 Sometimes, by extension, a surface is called a Clifton-Pohl torus if it is a finite covering of the quotient of by any homothety of ratio different from . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clifton–Pohl torus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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