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Curvature and finite domination

Author(s): Michael Weiss
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 615-622.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C21, 53C20; Secondary 57Q10
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Abstract: Upper bounds obtained by Gromov on the Betti numbers of certain closed Riemannian manifolds are shown to be upper bounds on the minimum number of cells in $CW$--spaces dominating such manifolds.


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Additional Information:

Michael Weiss
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Email: msweiss@math.lsa.umich.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03056-0
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03056-0
Keywords: Positive curvature, Betti numbers, homotopy direct limits
Received by editor(s): February 1, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 22, 1994 and August 9, 1994
Communicated by: Christopher Croke
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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