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In this section we describe some comparison results for the Hessian and the Laplacian of the distance function and for the volume of geodesic balls under curvature conditions. In some cases, the results we are going to describe improve on classical results.
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(2008). Comparison Results. In: Vanishing and Finiteness Results in Geometric Analysis. Progress in Mathematics, vol 266. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8642-9_2
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