Compact negatively curved manifolds (of dim [unk] 3,4) are topologically rigid

DOI10.1073/PNAS.86.10.3461zbMath0676.53047OpenAlexW2101763312WikidataQ33855489 ScholiaQ33855489MaRDI QIDQ3831625

Francis Thomas Farrell, Lowell Jones

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.10.3461

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupsfinite volumesurgerysectional curvatureshomotopy equivalencetopological rigidityhomeomorphism groupinfinite volumeMostow's rigidity theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52)

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