Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a variant of the geometric collapsing theory for Riemannian manifolds contained in the joint work of J. Cheeger, K. Fukaya and M. Gromov (henceforth called the “C-F-G-theory”). The authors make important use of this variant geometric collapsing theory in Farrell and Jones, 1998(2), to develop a theory for collapsing foliated Riemannian manifolds and then to prove topological rigidity for certain aspherical manifolds in Farrell and Jones, 1998(1).

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