Closed BLD-elliptic manifolds have virtually Abelian fundamental groups
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We show that a closed, connected, oriented, Riemannian n-manifold, admitting a branched cover of bounded length distortion from R, has a virtually Abelian fundamental group.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014