Points at infinity of complete open Riemannian manifolds
Journal of the Korean Society of Mathematical Education Series B: The Pure and Applied Mathematics / Journal of the Korean Society of Mathematical Education Series B: The Pure and Applied Mathematics, (P)1226-0657; (E)2287-6081
2004, v.11 no.4, pp.309-321
Kim, Tae-Soon
Jeon, Myung-Jin
Kim,,
T.
, &
Jeon,,
M.
(2004). Points at infinity of complete open Riemannian manifolds. Journal of the Korean Society of Mathematical Education Series B: The Pure and Applied Mathematics, 11(4), 309-321.
Abstract
For a complete open Riemannian manifold, the ideal boundary consists of points at infinity. The so-called Busemann-functions play the role of distance functions for points at infinity. We study the similarity and difference between Busemann-functions and ordinary distance functions.
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ideal boundary,
conjugate point,
cut point.