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Manifolds with minimal radial curvature bounded from below and big volume

Author(s): Valery Marenich
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 4451-4468.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C20, 53C21
Posted: June 14, 2000
MathSciNet review: 1779483
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Abstract:

We prove that a convergence in the Gromov-Hausdorff distance of manifolds with minimal radial curvature bounded from below by 1 to the standard sphere is equivalent to a volume convergence.

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