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Riemannian tori without conjugate points are flat

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  1. Laboratory for Theory of Algorithms St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    D. Burago

  2. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. Ivanov

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The first author was supported by the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” fellowship and enjoyed the hospitality of the University of Freiburg.

Both authors can be reached by e-mail at burago@ibs.spb.su, burago@lomi.spb.su or sliss@iian.spb.su; the first and last name of the addressee should be explicitly stated.

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Burago, D., Ivanov, S. Riemannian tori without conjugate points are flat. Geometric and Functional Analysis 4, 259–269 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01896241

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