Abstract
The main goal of the paper is to prove the existence of the universal cover for
Funding source: National Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1506393
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1440140
Funding statement: Guofang Wei was partially supported by NSF DMS-1506393.
Acknowledgements
This work was done while both authors were in residence at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California during the Spring 2016 semester, supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1440140. We thank the organizers of the Differential Geometry Program and MSRI for providing great environment for research and collaboration.
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