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Beem, J.K., Ehrlich, P.E., Markvorsen, S., Galloway, G.J. (1985). A Toponogov splitting theorem for Lorentzian manifolds. In: Ferus, D., Gardner, R.B., Helgason, S., Simon, U. (eds) Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis 1984. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075081
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