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Manifolds with preassigned curvature - a survey. (English) Zbl 0299.53025


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53C20 Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching
53C40 Global submanifolds
57Q35 Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology
53-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry
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