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Rigidities of asymptotically Euclidean manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Seong-Hun Paeng
Affiliation:
Korea Institute for Advanced Study207-43 Cheongryangri-dongDongdaemun-guSeoul 130-012Korea e-mail: [email protected]
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Let M be an n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. We study the fundamental group of M when the universal covering space of M, M is close to some Euclidean space ℝs asymptotically.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1999

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