Abstract
We show that for every closed Riemannian manifold X there exists a positive number¶ ε0>0 such that for all 0< there exists some¶ δ>0 such that for every metric space Y with Gromov-Hausdorff distance to X less than¶ δ the geometric ε -complex |Yε| is homotopy equivalent to X.¶ In particular, this gives a positive answer to a question of Hausmann.