Curvature and finite domination

Weiss, Michael

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03056-0

Curvature and finite domination
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 615-622 Request permission

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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