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* [http://www.ams.org/proc/1998-126-05/S0002-9939-98-04287-7/S0002-9939-98-04287-7.pdf | * [http://www.ams.org/proc/1998-126-05/S0002-9939-98-04287-7/S0002-9939-98-04287-7.pdf Improving the metric in an open manifold with nonnegative curvature] | ||
Revision as of 01:38, 7 July 2007
Statement
Any open Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature contains a compact totally geodesic submanifold (called the soul), such that is diffeomorphic to the normal bundle on , viz .
References
- Improving the metric in an open manifold with nonnegative curvature by Luis Guijarro, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 126, Number 5, May 1998, Pages 1541-1545