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The dual foliation in open manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature

Author(s): Luis Guijarro; Gerard Walschap
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 1419-1425.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C20
Posted: December 28, 2007
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Abstract: We study several properties of the Sharafutdinov dual foliation in open manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature.

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Additional Information:

Luis Guijarro
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Email: luis.guijarro@uam.es

Gerard Walschap
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Email: gerard@ou.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09047-8
PII: S 0002-9939(07)09047-8
Keywords: Wilking dual foliation, open manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature
Received by editor(s): November 29, 2006
Posted: December 28, 2007
Additional Notes: The first author was supported by research grant MTM2004-04794-MEC. Most of this work was done during a visit of the second author to Madrid, financed in part by funds of the aforementioned grant.
Communicated by: Jon G. Wolfson
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society

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