A proof of Milnor conjecture in dimension 3

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2017-0057MaRDI QIDQ2282301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jiayin Pan

Publication date 7 January 2020

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08143

zbMATH Keywords

Cheeger-Colding theoryfinitely generated fundamental groupGromov-Hausdorff convergencelimit spacesnon-negative Ricci curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We present a proof of Milnor conjecture in dimension 3 based on Cheeger-Colding theory on limit spaces of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. It is different from [Liu] that relies on minimal surface theory.

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