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

Vitali Kapovitch; Anton Petrunin; Wilderich Tuschmann

doi:10.4007/annals.2010.171.343

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

Vitali Kapovitch, Anton Petrunin, Wilderich Tuschmann

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We show that almost nonnegatively curved m-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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	343-373
Number of pages	31
Journal	Annals of Mathematics
Volume	171
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2010.171.343
State	Published - 2010

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Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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