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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
12. Curvature and Topology
verfasst von : John M. Lee
Erschienen in: Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds
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Abstract
In this final chapter, we bring together most of the tools we have developed so far to prove some significant local-to-global theorems relating curvature and topology of Riemannian manifolds. The main results are (1) the Killing–Hopf theorem, which characterizes complete, simply connected manifolds with constant sectional curvature; (2) the Cartan–Hadamard theorem, which topologically characterizes complete, simply connected manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature; and (3) Myers’s theorem, which says that a complete manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive constant must be compact and have a finite fundamental group.