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2014 Sweeping out sectional curvature
Dmitri Panov, Anton Petrunin
Geom. Topol. 18(2): 617-631 (2014). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2014.18.617

Abstract

We observe that the maximal open set of constant curvature κ in a Riemannian manifold of curvature κ or κ has a convexity-type property, which we call two-convexity. This statement is used to prove a number of rigidity statements in comparison geometry.

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Dmitri Panov. Anton Petrunin. "Sweeping out sectional curvature." Geom. Topol. 18 (2) 617 - 631, 2014. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2014.18.617

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Received: 29 March 2013; Revised: 7 September 2013; Accepted: 28 September 2013; Published: 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1296.53091
MathSciNet: MR3159972
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2014.18.617

Subjects:
Primary: 53C24
Secondary: 53C20

Keywords: comparison geometry , rigidity

Rights: Copyright © 2014 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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