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==Statement==
==Statement==


Any [[negatively curved manifold]], viz any manifold which has negative sectional curvature everywhere, has the property that its universal cover is diffeomorphic to real Euclidean space.
Any [[negatively curved manifold]], viz any manifold which has negative sectional curvature everywhere, has the property that its universal cover is diffeomorphic to real Euclidean space.

Revision as of 05:16, 11 May 2007

This article describes a result related to the sectional curvature of a Riemannian manifold

This result relates information on curvature to information on topology of a manifold

This article makes a prediction about the universal cover of a manifold based on given data at the level of a:[[{{{1}}}]][[Category: Results predicting the universal cover at the level of {{{1}}}]]

Statement

Any negatively curved manifold, viz any manifold which has negative sectional curvature everywhere, has the property that its universal cover is diffeomorphic to real Euclidean space.