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Negatively Ricci curved manifolds

Author(s): 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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Additional Information:

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00325-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1992)00325-7
Copyright of article: Copyright 1992, American Mathematical Society




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