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To Charles Loewner, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, and in token of my esteem.
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Finn, R. On a class of conformal metrics, with application to differential geometry in the large. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 40, 1–30 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02564362
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