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Geodesic completeness of submanifolds in Minkowski space

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    John K. Beem & Paul E. Ehrlich

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This work was supported in part by a grant from the Weldon Spring fund of the University of Missouri.

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Beem, J.K., Ehrlich, P.E. Geodesic completeness of submanifolds in Minkowski space. Geom Dedicata 18, 213–226 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151400

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