{ "id": "math/0110087", "version": "v1", "published": "2001-10-08T18:26:34.000Z", "updated": "2001-10-08T18:26:34.000Z", "title": "Restrictions on collapsing with a lower sectional curvature bound", "authors": [ "Vitali Kapovitch" ], "categories": [ "math.DG", "math.MG" ], "abstract": "We obtain new topological information about the local structure of collapsing under a lower sectional curvature bound. As an application we prove a new sphere theorem and obtain a partial result towards the conjecture that not every Alexandrov space can be obtained as a limit of a sequence of Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded from below.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2001-10-08T18:26:34.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "53C20" ], "keywords": [ "lower sectional curvature bound", "restrictions", "collapsing", "local structure", "sphere theorem" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2001math.....10087K" } } }