The topology of an open manifold with radial curvature bounded from below by a model surface with finite total curvature and examples of model surfaces

Abstract

We will construct surfaces of revolution with finite total curvature whose Gauss curvatures are not bounded. Such a surface of revolution is employed as a reference surface of comparison theorems in radial curvature geometry. Moreover, we will prove that a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold M is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold with boundary, if the manifold M is not less curved than a non-compact model surface of revolution, and if the total curvature of the model surface is finite and less than $2\pi$. Hence, in the first result mentioned above, we may treat a much wider class of metrics than that of a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded from below by a constant.