The metric Blaschke conjecture
What the paper claims, in its own words
Proves the metric Blaschke conjecture: every closed connected Riemannian manifold of positive dimension whose injectivity radius equals its diameter is, up to scaling, a standard compact rank-one symmetric space.
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The original paper
- The metric Blaschke theorem (PDF, opens in a new tab) September 23, 2026