The sphere theorem

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Authors Erwann Aubry

Publication date 2000

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/114442

zbMATH Keywords

compact Riemannian manifoldsphere theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Review text

The isometries of compact Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature greater than \(n-1\), with the sphere in \((\mathbb R^n, can)\) with the canonical metric depend on the invariants diameter, volume, radius, and spectrum. (For inequalities see the theorems of Myers, Bischop, Lichnerowicz, and for equalities theorems of Obata and Cheng). \textit{J. Cheeger} and \textit{T. H. Colding} [J. Differ. Geom. 46, No. 3, 406--480 (1997; Zbl 0902.53034)] proved: There exists a \(\delta=\delta(n)>0\) so that all compact Riemannian manifolds \((M^n, g)\) with Ricci curvature greater than \(n-1\), satisfying \(\text{Vol}(M^n, g)\geq (1-\delta(n) )\text{Vol}(S^n)\) are diffeomorphic to \((S^n)\). NEWLINENEWLINEThis article is an excellent presentation of the proof of Cheeger and Colding in a form allowing the extension of the result to the remaining invariants. It ends with an appendix about several properties of a manifold with positive Ricci curvature.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0955.00015].

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