Unique decomposition of riemannian manifolds

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3075-3078

  Eschenburg, J H ^a   Heintze, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

De rham's theorem; Indecomposable riemannian manifolds; Irreducible riemannian manifolds; Riemannian products

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444454139     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-98-04630-9     Document Type: Article

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