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Gromov's Pinching Constant

Differential Geometry 2008-04-02 v1

Abstract

In early 80's M.Gromov showed that there exists a constant ϵ\epsilon such that any compact Riemannian manifold MnM^n with KMndiam2(Mn)ϵ|K|_{M^n} \cdot diam^2(M^n) \leq \epsilon can be finitely covered by a nilmanifold. The present paper illustrates by an explicit example that the pinching constant ϵ\epsilon depends on the dimension nn of the manifold, in particular, it decreases with the dimension at least as 12n2.\frac{12}{n^2}.

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@article{arxiv.0804.0201,
  title  = {Gromov's Pinching Constant},
  author = {Galina Guzhvina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0201},
  year   = {2008}
}

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