Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)


SIGMA 16 (2020), 078, 16 pages      arXiv:2006.00745      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2020.078
Contribution to the Special Issue on Scalar and Ricci Curvature in honor of Misha Gromov on his 75th Birthday

The Fundamental Groups of Open Manifolds with Nonnegative Ricci Curvature

Jiayin Pan
Department of Mathematics, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA

Received June 02, 2020, in final form August 04, 2020; Published online August 17, 2020

Abstract
We survey the results on fundamental groups of open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We also present some open questions on this topic.

Key words: Ricci curvature; fundamental groups.

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