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In this paper, we show that complete Riemannian manifolds with asymptotically non-negative Ricci curvature in which some Hardy type inequalities hold are not far from the Euclidean space.
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L. Adriano was partially supported by PICDT-CAPES and C. Xia was partially supported by CNPq and FAPDF.
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Adriano, L., Xia, C. Hardy type inequalities on complete Riemannian manifolds. Monatsh Math 163, 115–129 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-010-0220-1
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