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Geodesics and totally convex sets on surfaces

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Work partially supported by the program Sonderforschungsbereich “Theoretische Mathematik” at the University of Bonn

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Bangert, V. Geodesics and totally convex sets on surfaces. Invent Math 63, 507–517 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01389067

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