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Manifolds with wells of negative curvature

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Support was received from the EEC Stimulation Action Plan, NATO Collaborative Research Grants Programme 0232/87 and from NSF grant INT-8703344.

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Elworthy, K.D., Rosenberg, S. Manifolds with wells of negative curvature. Invent Math 103, 471–495 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239523

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