Surveys in Differential Geometry

Volume 11 (2006)

Perelman’s Stability Theorem

Pages: 103 – 136

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/SDG.2006.v11.n1.a5

Author

Vitali Kapovitch (Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S2E4, Canada)

Abstract

We give a proof of the celebrated stability theorem of Perelman stating that for a noncollapsing sequence $X_i$ of Alexandrov spaces with $\curv$ $\ge k$ Gromov-Hausdorff converging to a compact Alexandrov $X$, $X_i$ is homeomorphic to $X$ for all large $i$.

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Published 1 January 2006