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Transitive curve symmetry makes geodesic-curvature magnitude constant
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If ambient isometries preserving a connected curve act transitively on it, then the magnitude of its geodesic curvature is constant. Continuity then makes the signed geodesic curvature either identically zero or of one fixed sign.
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