Hamilton's injectivity radius estimate for sequences with almost nonnegative curvature operators

Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1151-1180

  Chow, Bennett ^a   Knopf, Dan ^b   Lu, Peng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0042809554     PISSN: 10198385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CAG.2002.v10.n5.a11     Document Type: Article

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