An optimal Loewner-type systolic inequality and harmonic one-forms of constant norm

Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 703-732

  Bangert, Victor ^a   Katz, Mikhail ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 4544220180     PISSN: 10198385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CAG.2004.v12.n3.a8     Document Type: Article

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