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SCALAR CURVATURE COMPARISONS OF LEVEL HYPERSURFACES OF GEODESIC SPHERES

  • Kim, Jong Ryul (Department of Mathematics Kunsan National University)
  • Received : 2016.07.16
  • Accepted : 2018.02.27
  • Published : 2018.03.31
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Abstract

Using the comparison of differential equations involving Ricci and scalar curvatures obtained by Eschenburg and O'Sullivan, the scalar curvatures of level hypersurfaces of geodesic spheres are compared.

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