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  1. Department of Mathematics, Ibaragi University, Mito, Japan

    M. Sugimoto

  2. Mathematisches Institut, D-5300, Bonn, Germany

    K. Shiohama

  3. Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    K. Shiohama

  4. Mathematisches Institut, D-5300, Bonn, Germany

    H. Karcher

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The work of these authors was done under the program “Sonderforschungsbereich Theoretische Mathematik” (SFB 40) at Bonn University. The first of these authors was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.

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Sugimoto, M., Shiohama, K. & Karcher, H. On the differentiable pinching problem. Math. Ann. 195, 1–16 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02059412

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