Negatively Ricci curved manifolds

Lohkamp, Joachim

doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00325-7

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Negatively Ricci curved manifolds

Author: Joachim Lohkamp
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 288-291
MSC (2000): Primary 53C21; Secondary 57R99
MathSciNet review: 1161276
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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.

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