Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 16 (2020), 104, 8 pages      arXiv:2010.10031      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2020.104
Contribution to the Special Issue on Scalar and Ricci Curvature in honor of Misha Gromov on his 75th Birthday

Conjectures and Open Questions on the Structure and Regularity of Spaces with Lower Ricci Curvature Bounds

Aaron Naber
Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, USA

Received July 29, 2020, in final form October 11, 2020; Published online October 20, 2020; Corollary 2.20 corrected October 26, 2020

Abstract
In this short note we review some known results on the structure and regularity of spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds. We present some known and new open questions about next steps.

Key words: Ricci curvature; regularity.

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