Negatively Ricci curved manifolds
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Abstract:
In this paper we announce the following result: "Every manifold of dimension $\geq 3$ admits a complete negatively Ricci curved metric." Furthermore we describe some sharper results and sketch proofs.References
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- © Copyright 1992 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 288-291
- MSC (2000): Primary 53C21; Secondary 57R99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00325-7
- MathSciNet review: 1161276