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Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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Positively curved bilinear forms
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by K. S. Sarkaria and S. M. Zoltek PDF
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 97 (1986), 577-584 Request permission

Abstract:

A characterisation of the positivity of sectional curvature is given in terms of the angular spread of the second fundamental form.
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    • S. Kobayashi and K. Nomizu, Foundations of differential geometry, vol. 2, Wiley, New York, 1969.
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Additional Information
  • © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 97 (1986), 577-584
  • MSC: Primary 53B25; Secondary 15A63
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1986-0845968-7
  • MathSciNet review: 845968