Great sphere foliations and manifolds with curvature bounded above

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Authors: Vladimir Yu. Rovenskij, V. A. Toponogov 

Publication date: 20 September 1996

Abstract: The survey is devoted to Toponogov's conjecture, that {it if a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $le4$ and injectivity radius $gepi/2$ has extremal diameter $pi/2$, then it is isometric to CROSS}. In Section 1 the relations of problem with geodesic foliations of a round sphere are considered, but the proof of conjecture on this way is not complete. In Section 2 the proof based on recent results and methods for topology and volume of Blaschke manifolds is given.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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