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The fundamental groups of almost nonnegatively curved manifolds (English)
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17 January 1993
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A group is called almost nilpotent if it contains a nilpotent subgroup of finite index. The authors prove in their main result that there exists a positive number \(\varepsilon=\varepsilon(n)\) such that the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian \(n\)-manifold \(M\) is almost nilpotent if the sectional curvature \(K_ M\) and the diameter \(d_ M\) satisfy \[ K_ Md^ 2_ M>-\varepsilon(n). \] This was conjectured by Gromov and follows from his almost flat manifold theorem under the stronger assumption \(| K_ M| d^ 2_ M<\varepsilon(n)\). The proof uses a collapsing technique.
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almost nonnegative curvature
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nilpotent subgroup
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fundamental group
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collapsing technique
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