Metric Ricci curvature for $PL$ manifolds

We introduce a metric notion of Ricci curvature for manifolds and study its convergence properties. We also prove a fitting version of the Bonnet-Myers theorem, for surfaces as well as for a large class of higher dimensional manifolds.

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