\(C^ \alpha\)-compactness for manifolds with Ricci curvature and injectivity radius bounded below (Q1203611)

The authors prove that the space of compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension \(n\) with Ricci curvature and injectivity radius bounded from below and volume bounded from above by given constants is precompact in the \(C^ \alpha\)-topology for any \(\alpha<1\). This extends a compactness result by the first author [Invent. Math. 102, No. 2, 429-445 (1990; Zbl 0711.53038)]. For the proof it is shown that the \(L^{1,p}\)-harmonic radius, if less than a sufficiently small constant depending on the Ricci curvature, has a lower bound depending on the injectivity radius for any \(p>n\).