Curvature, diameter and bounded Betti numbers

DOI10.1007/s11401-005-0398-zzbMath1102.53026arXivmath/9912123MaRDI QIDQ2431985

Jyh-Yang Wu, Zhong-min Shen

Publication date: 24 October 2006

Published in: Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912123

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology; Ricci curvature; diameter; singular cochains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C23: Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions

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