Disconnectedness of sublevel sets of some Riemannian functionals

Geometric and Functional Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 703-725

  Nabutovsky, Alexander ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0030524139     PISSN: 1016443X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02247118     Document Type: Article

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