Volume growth of open manifolds with nonnegative curvature (Q581851)

Let M be a complete open Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature and let S be the soul of M in the sense of Cheeger and Gromoll. Let m be the codimension of S in M. It is proved: If the volume growth of M is of power m, then M splits isometrically as \(M=S\times X\), where X is diffeomorphic to some euclidean space.