Two generalizations of cheeger-gromoll splitting theorem via bakry-emery ricci curvature

Annales de l'Institut Fourier

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 563-573

  Fang, Fuquan ^a   Xiang Dong, L I ^b,c   Zhang, Zhenlei ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Bakry emery ricci curvature; Busemann function; Splitting theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 67149088337     PISSN: 03730956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5802/aif.2440     Document Type: Article

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