Aspects of global Riemannian geometry

Petersen, Peter

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Aspects of global Riemannian geometry
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In this article we survey some of the developments in Riemannian geometry. We place special emphasis on explaining the relationship between curvature and topology for Riemannian manifolds with lower curvature bounds.

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