On fundamental groups of manifolds of nonnegative curvature

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-165

  Wilking, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fundamental groups; Groups of polynomial growth; Nonnegative curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034259709     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(00)00030-9     Document Type: Article

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