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

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.171.343MaRDI QIDQ974040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors 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, http://annals.princeton.edu/annals/2010/171-1/p06.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

gradient flownilpotent spaceAlexandrov gometryalmost nonnegatively curved manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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.

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