On topological rigidity of Alexandrov 3-spaces
Noé Bárcenas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, MexicoJesús Núñez-Zimbrón
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, Mexico
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Abstract
In this note we show that sufficiently collapsed, irreducible and aspherical Alexandrov 3-spaces are homeomorphic to 3-manifolds. As a corollary we obtain the validity of the Borel conjecture for sufficiently collapsed, irreducible and aspherical Alexandrov 3-spaces.
Cite this article
Noé Bárcenas, Jesús Núñez-Zimbrón, On topological rigidity of Alexandrov 3-spaces. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 37 (2021), no. 5, pp. 1629–1639
DOI 10.4171/RMI/1241