On the fundamental groups of manifolds with almost-nonnegative Ricci curvature
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Abstract:
We give an upper bound on the growth of ${\pi _1}\left ( M \right )$ for a class of manifolds $M$ with Ricci curvature ${\text {Ri}}{{\text {c}}_M} \geq - \varepsilon$, diameter $d\left ( M \right ) = 1$, and volume ${\text {vol}}\left ( M \right ) \geq \upsilon$.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1990 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 110 (1990), 197-199
- MSC: Primary 53C20; Secondary 20F34, 22E40, 57M05, 57S20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1990-1021214-X
- MathSciNet review: 1021214