Collapsing three-manifolds under a lower curvature bound

Journal of Differential Geometry

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-66

  Shioya, Takashi ^a   Yamaguchi, Takao ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alexandrov spaces; Seifert fibred spaces; The Gromov Hausdorff convergence; Topology of three manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039015730     PISSN: 0022040X     EISSN: 1945743X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1090347524     Document Type: Article

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