Angular distribution of diameters for spheres and rays for planes (Q494955)

This paper continues the studies of the diameter sphere theorem due to [\textit{K. Grove} and \textit{K. Shiohama}, Ann. Math. (2) 106, 201--211 (1977; Zbl 0341.53029)]. The authors obtain related results and give some conditions which ensure that a complete noncompact Riemannian \(n\)-manifold is diffeomorphic to an \(n\)-plane.