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Pinching theorems for teardrops and footballs of revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Joseph E. Borzellino
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Department of MathematicsUniversity of CaliforniaDavis CA 95616United State of America
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We give explicit optimal curvature pinching constants for the Riemannian (p, q)- football orbifolds under the assumption that they are realised as surfaces of revolution in ℝ3. We show that sufficiently pinched sectional curvature assumptions imply that a (p, q)-football must be good.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1994

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