Spherical rank rigidity and Blaschke manifolds

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-04-12813-1zbMath1082.53051arXivmath/0305177OpenAlexW2081651903MaRDI QIDQ2572630

Burkhard Wilking, Krishnan Shankar, Ralf J. Spatzier

Publication date: 4 November 2005

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305177

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric spacesgeodesicsRiemannian manifoldsconjugate points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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