Stability of Tori under Lower Sectional Curvature

Abstract: Let

(M_{i}^{n}, g_{i}) s t a c k r e l G H l o n g r i g h t a r r o w (X, d_{X})

be a Gromov-Hausdorff converging sequence of Riemannian manifolds with

{m S e c}_{g_{i}} g e - 1

,

m d i a m, (M_{i}) l e D

, and such that the

M_{i}^{n}

are all homeomorphic to tori

T^{n}

. Then

X

is homeomorphic to a

k

-dimensional torus

T^{k}

for some

0 l e q k l e q n

. This answers a question of Petrunin in the affirmative. In the three dimensional case we prove the same stability under the weaker condition

{m R i c}_{g_{i}} g e - 2

.

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