Examples of Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature almost everywhere

Geometry and Topology

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 331-367

  Petersen, Peter ^a   Wilhelm, Frederick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Positive curvature; Unit tangent bundle of S4

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000210678     PISSN: 14653060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/gt.1999.3.331     Document Type: Article

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