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Warped products of metric spaces of curvature bounded from above
Author(s):
Chien-Hsiung
Chen
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
351
(1999),
4727-4740.
MSC (1991):
Primary 53C20, 53C21, 53C45
Posted:
August 27, 1999
MathSciNet review:
1466944
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Abstract:
In this work we extend the idea of warped products, which was previously defined on smooth Riemannian manifolds, to geodesic metric spaces and prove the analogue of the theorems on spaces with curvature bounded from above.
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Additional Information:
Chien-Hsiung
Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National Changhua University of Education, Paisa Village, Changhua 50058, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Email:
chen@math.ncue.edu.tw
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02154-6
PII:
S 0002-9947(99)02154-6
Received by editor(s):
January 29, 1997
Posted:
August 27, 1999
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