TY - JOUR T1 - Fundamental Groups of Manifolds of Positive Sectional Curvature and Bounded Covering Geometry AU - Rong , Xiaochun JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 3 SP - 358 EP - 372 PY - 2024 DA - 2024/10 SN - 57 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v57n3.24.07 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/23493.html KW - Positive sectional curvature, fundamental groups, the $c(n)$-cyclic conjecture. AB -

Let $M$ be an $n$-manifold of positive sectional curvature $≥ 1.$ In this paper, we show that if the Riemannian universal covering has volume at least $v > 0,$ then the fundamental group $\pi_1(M)$ has a cyclic subgroup of index bounded above by a constant depending only on $n$ and $v.$