Perelman???s Stability Theorem

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

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