Unique decomposition of Riemannian manifolds

Unique decomposition of Riemannian manifolds
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by J.-H. Eschenburg and E. Heintze PDF

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3075-3078 Request permission

We prove an extension of de Rham’s decomposition theorem to the non-simply connected case.

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