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Closed BLD-elliptic manifolds have virtually Abelian fundamental groups

Metric Geometry 2013-12-06 v2 Differential Geometry Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that a closed, connected, oriented, Riemannian nn-manifold, admitting a branched cover of bounded length distortion from Rn\mathbb R^n, has a virtually Abelian fundamental group.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1308,
  title  = {Closed BLD-elliptic manifolds have virtually Abelian fundamental groups},
  author = {Enrico Le Donne and Pekka Pankka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1308},
  year   = {2013}
}
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