Unique decomposition of Riemannian manifolds
Authors:
J.-H. Eschenburg and E. Heintze
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3075-3078
MSC (1991):
Primary 53C20; Secondary 53C12
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04630-9
MathSciNet review:
1473665
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Abstract: We prove an extension of de Rham's decomposition theorem to the non-simply connected case.
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J.-H. Eschenburg
Affiliation:
Institut fur Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
Email:
eschenburg@math.uni-augsburg.de
E. Heintze
Affiliation:
Institut fur Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
Email:
heintze@math.uni-augsburg.de
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04630-9
Keywords:
Riemannian products,
indecomposable Riemannian manifolds,
irreducible Riemannian manifolds,
de Rham's theorem
Received by editor(s):
February 28, 1997
Communicated by:
Christopher Croke
Article copyright:
© Copyright 1998
American Mathematical Society
