The limit spaces of two-dimensional manifolds with uniformly bounded integral curvature

Shioya, Takashi

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02103-0

The limit spaces of two-dimensional manifolds with uniformly bounded integral curvature
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Abstract:

We study the class of closed $2$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with uniformly bounded diameter and total absolute curvature. Our first theorem states that this class of manifolds is precompact with respect to the Gromov-Hausdorff distance. Our goal in this paper is to completely characterize the topological structure of all the limit spaces of the class of manifolds, which are, in general, not topological manifolds and even may not be locally $2$-connected. We also study the limit of $2$-manifolds with $L^p$-curvature bound for $p \ge 1$.

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