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  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP218, Campus Plaine, Boulevard de Triomphe, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Lorenz J. Schwachhöfer

  2. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Sonderforschungsbereich 478‘‘Geometrische Strukturen in der Mathematik’’ Hittorfstrasse 27, D-48149, Münster, Germany

    Wilderich Tuschmann

  3. Mathematics Institut, Universität Dortmund, Vogelpothsweg 87, D-44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Lorenz J. Schwachhöfer

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Research supported by the Communauté française de Belgique, through an Action de Recherche Concertée de la Direction de la Recherche Scientifique, and by the DFG Priority Program ‘‘Globale Differentialgeometrie’’.

Research supported by a DFG Heisenberg Fellowship and the DFG Priority Program ‘‘Globale Differentialgeometrie’’.

Keywords: Biquotients, cohomogeneity one manifolds, positive Ricci curvature, nonnegative Ricci curvature, almost nonnegative sectional curvature

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Schwachhöfer, L., Tuschmann, W. Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on quotient spaces. Math. Ann. 330, 59–91 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-004-0538-x

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