Locally geodesically quasiconvex functions on complete Riemannian manifolds
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Abstract:
In this article, we investigate the topological structure of complete Riemannian manifolds admitting locally geodesically quasiconvex functions, whose family includes all geodesically convex functions. The existence of a locally geodesically quasiconvex function is equivalent to the existence of a certain filtration by locally convex sets. Our argument contains Morse theory for the lower limit function of a given locally geodesically quasiconvex function.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 298 (1986), 307-330
- MSC: Primary 53C20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1986-0857446-4
- MathSciNet review: 857446