Tits geometry of cocompact real-analytic Hadamard manifolds of dimension 4

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-143

  Hummel, Christoph ^a   Schroeder, Viktor ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Higher rank subspaces; Homogeneous spaces; Nonpositive curvature; Tits geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033196738     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(99)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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