Chapter 8 Certain actual topics on modern Lorentzian geometry

Handbook of Differential Geometry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 513-546

  Palomo, Francisco J ^a   Romero, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5741(06)80011-7     Document Type: Article

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