The fary-milnor theorem in hadamard manifolds

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3427-3436

  Alexander, Stephanie B ^a   Bishop, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat(0) spaces; Hadamard manifolds; Knots; Total curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444453310     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-98-04423-2     Document Type: Article

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