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Power series expansions, differential geometry of geodesic spheres and tubes, and mean-value theorems

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Gray, A., Vanhecke, L. (1980). Power series expansions, differential geometry of geodesic spheres and tubes, and mean-value theorems. In: Artzy, R., Vaisman, I. (eds) Geometry and Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0088683

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