On the fundamental group of open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature

Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 469-474

  Xu, Senlin ^a   Wang, Zuoqin ^b   Yang, Fangyun ^b  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Excess function; Finitely generated fundamental group; Ray denisity; Ricci curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345759779     PISSN: 02529599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0252959903000463     Document Type: Article

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