Nilpotency, almost nonnegative curvature, and the gradient flow on Alexandrov spaces

DOI10.4007/annals.2010.171.343zbMath1192.53040arXivmath/0506273WikidataQ125564885 ScholiaQ125564885MaRDI QIDQ974040

Vitali Kapovitch, Anton Petrunin, Wilderich Tuschmann

Publication date: 27 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506273

zbMATH Keywords

nilpotent space; gradient flow; Alexandrov gometry; almost nonnegatively curved manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

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