A GENERALIZATION OF THE LORENTZIAN SPLITTING THEOREM

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Yun, Jong-Gug (Department of Mathematics Education Korea National University of Education)

In this paper, we obtain a generalized Lorentzian splitting theorem by weakening the assumption of nonnegative Ricci curvature.

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