Some remarks on the simplicial volume of nonpositively curved manifolds (Q785333)

It is well known that any closed manifold of nonpositive sectional curvature and negative Ricci curvature has positive simplicial volume. The main goal of the paper is to go one step further and show a precise lower bound for simplicial volume of closed manifold with a metric of nonpositive curvature that admits either a single point rank condition or a single point curvature condition. Then the boundedness is applied to provide a differential geometric proof of a conjecture of Gromov in dimension three.