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

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.171.343zbMATH Open1192.53040arXivmath/0506273OpenAlexW3101340897WikidataQ125564885 ScholiaQ125564885MaRDI QIDQ974040FDOQ974040

Vitali Kapovitch, Wilderich Tuschmann, Anton Petrunin

Publication date: 27 May 2010

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

Abstract: We show that almost nonnegatively curved m-dimensional manifolds are, up to finite cover, nilpotent spaces in the sense of homotopy theory and have C(m)-nilpotent fundamental groups. We also show that up to a finite cover almost nonnegatively curved manifolds are fiber bundles with simply connected fibers over nilmanifolds.

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

zbMATH Keywords

gradient flownilpotent spaceAlexandrov gometryalmost nonnegatively curved manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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