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Metric collineations and inverse problems

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  1. Dept. of Math., University of Southern California, 90007, Los Angeles, Calif., USA

    Herbert Busemann & Helmut Salzmann

  2. Mathematisches Seminar der Universität, Frankfurt/Main

    Herbert Busemann & Helmut Salzmann

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Dedicated toRuth Moufang on her sixtieth birthday, January 10, 1965

This Work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, USA.

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Busemann, H., Salzmann, H. Metric collineations and inverse problems. Math Z 87, 214–240 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01109941

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