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Cheeger, J. (1991). Critical points of distance functions and applications to geometry. In: de Bartolomeis, P., Tricerri, F. (eds) Geometric Topology: Recent Developments. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0094288
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