An exotic sphere with positive curvature almost everywhere

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 519-560

  Wilhelm, Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exotic sphere; Positive curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013166584     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02922018     Document Type: Article

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