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First Betti number and collapse

Differential Geometry 2022-10-19 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that when a sequence of Riemannian manifolds collapses under a lower Ricci curvature bound, the first Betti number cannot drop more than the dimension.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.12628,
  title  = {First Betti number and collapse},
  author = {Sergio Zamora},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12628},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages

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