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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1585256
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Integral curvature bounds and bounded diameter (English)
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5 April 2001
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The paper generalizes the result of Myers that a complete \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(( M,g) \) with Ricci curvature \(\text{Ric}(M) \geq ( n-1) k>0\) is compact, has \(\text{diam}( M)\leq \pi /\sqrt{k}\) and fundamental group \(\pi _1( M) \) finite by using an inequality of Cheeger and Colding. The author proves that if \(( M,g) \) is compact and \(\text{Ric}( M) \geq 0,\) given \(\delta >0\) and a sufficiently small (depending on \(\delta \) and \(n)\) integral involving the lowest eigenvalue of the Ricci tensor, then \(\text{diam}( M) <\pi +\delta \). If \(M\) is either not compact or the Ricci curvature is bounded nonpositively below, that is, \(\text{Ric}( M)\geq ( n-1) k\) with \(k\leq 0\) but satisfies a similar integral curvature bound, then \(M\) is compact with bounded diameter and finite fundamental group. The integral curvature condition replaces bounds on \(\text{diam}( M) \) from above and \(\text{vol}( M) \) from below as were assumed in previous extensions of Myers' result that \(\pi _1(M) \) is finite.
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Riemannian manifolds
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integral curvature bounds
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Ricci curvature
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fundamental group
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lowest eigenvalue of the Ricci tensor
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