On fundamental groups of manifolds of nonnegative curvature (Q1591524)

The author gives several algebraic characterizations of the fundamental groups of compact manifolds of (almost) nonnegative Ricci curvature and the fundamental groups of manifolds that admit bounded curvature collapses to manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature. In particular, his Theorem 2.1 shows that the well known necessary conditions on these groups [see \textit{J. Cheeger} and \textit{D. Gromoll}, J. Differ. Geom. 6, 119-128 (1971; Zbl 0223.53033)] are sufficient as well.