An obstruction to fundamental groups of positively Ricci curved manifolds (Q1264249)

Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature greater than or equal to \(n-1\), \(n\geq 2\). In this paper, the author proves that, given \(k\), if \(K_M\geq k\), then there exists a positive number \(p(n,k)\) such that \(b_1(M,\mathbb{Z}_p)\leq n-1\), for all prime \(p\geq p(n,k)\). This is a special case of a conjecture proposed by the author, namely, given a Riemannian manifold of dimension at least 2 and positive Ricci curvature, there exists a constant \(p(n)\) such that \(b_1(M,\mathbb{Z}_p)\leq n-1\), for all prime \(p\geq p(n)\).