Simply connected manifolds with no conjugate points which are flat outside a compact set
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- by Christopher B. Croke PDF
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Abstract:
In this note we improve a previous result to show that euclidean $n$-space $(n \geq 3)$ is the only simply connected manifold without conjugate points which is flat outside a compact set.References
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- © Copyright 1991 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 111 (1991), 297-298
- MSC: Primary 53C20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1991-1039254-4
- MathSciNet review: 1039254