On the fundamental group of complete manifolds with almost Euclidean volume growth

Wan, Jianming

doi:10.1090/proc/14571

On the fundamental group of complete manifolds with almost Euclidean volume growth
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Abstract:

It is proved that the fundamental group of a complete Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and certain volume growth conditions is trivial or finite.

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