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Convexity and tightness of manifolds with boundary

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Rodríguez, L.L. (1977). Convexity and tightness of manifolds with boundary. In: Palis, J., do Carmo, M. (eds) Geometry and Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 597. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085374

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