Some relations between the metric structure and the algebraic structure of the fundamental group in manifolds of nonpositive curvature

Gromoll, Detlef; Wolf, Joseph A.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1971-12747-7

Some relations between the metric structure and the algebraic structure of the fundamental group in manifolds of nonpositive curvature
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 545-552

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