Some properties of non-positively curved lattices (Q943640)

This article is just a summary of results without any proofs given. The results are on the structure of CAT(0) groups, CAT(0) lattices and the underlying spaces. The authors define a CAT(0) group as a pair \((\Gamma ,X)\) where \(X\) is a proper CAT(0) space and \(\Gamma \) a properly discontinuous cocompact group of isometries of \(X\). A CAT(0) lattice is a pair \((\Gamma ,X)\) where \(X\) is a proper CAT(0) space whose isometry group \(\text{Is}(X)\) acts cocompactly and \(\Gamma \) is a lattice in \(\text{Is}(X)\). The authors announce some general results on CAT(0) lattices in several classical topics: closed manifolds of non-positive curvature; uniform lattices in semi-simple groups over local fields; tree lattices, exotic and non-Euclidian buildings; general geometric group theory. Classical statements about Hadamard manifolds are established for singular spaces; new arithmetic and rigidity statements are obtained.