Curvature and distance function from a manifold

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 723-748

  Ambrosio, Luigi ^a   Mantegazza, Carlo ^a  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distance function; Second fundamental form; Willmore functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003338459     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02922668     Document Type: Article

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