Existence of flats in manifolds of nonpositive curvature (Q1820443)

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    Existence of flats in manifolds of nonpositive curvature
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3996556

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      Existence of flats in manifolds of nonpositive curvature (English)
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      The authors prove that the existence of an immersed m-flat in a compact Riemannian manifold of nonpositive sectional curvature depends only on the fundamental group of the manifold. The proof uses methods from geometric measure theory. Recall that the existence of a 2-flat is equivalent to non-visibility, as was shown by elementary means by P. Eberlein.
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      m-flat
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      nonpositive sectional curvature
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      fundamental group
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      non- visibility
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