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Classification of manifolds with weakly 1/4-pinched curvatures

Differential Geometry 2008-07-18 v3

Abstract

We show that a compact Riemannian manifold with weakly 1/4-pinched sectional curvatures is either locally symmetric or diffeomorphic to a space form.

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@article{arxiv.0705.3963,
  title  = {Classification of manifolds with weakly 1/4-pinched curvatures},
  author = {S. Brendle and R. M. Schoen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.3963},
  year   = {2008}
}

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