Spaces of Wald-Berestovskii curvature bounded below

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Plant, Conrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexandrov space; Hopf Rinow theorem; Toponogov's theorem; Wald curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744309187     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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