Total excess and Tits metric for piecewise Riemannian 2-manifolds

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 94, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 173-193

  Kawamura, Kazuhiro ^a   Ohtsuka, Fumiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary at infinity; Geodesic; Piecewise riemannian manifolds; Tits metric; Total excess

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944361914     PISSN: 0016660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-8641(98)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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