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We give a survey on various results regarding the metric aspects of conic surfaces with emphasis on the prescribing curvature problem for conic surfaces.
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Lai, M. Metric aspects of conic surfaces. Front. Math. China 11, 1291–1312 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11464-016-0556-5
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