Rank rigidity for foliations by manifolds of nonpositive curvature

DOI10.1016/0926-2245(93)90022-SMaRDI QIDQ1802537zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Scot Adams

Publication date 17 June 1993

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0926-2245(93)90022-s

zbMATH Keywords

Hadamard manifoldssymmetric leaves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12)

Review text

We develop a rank rigidity theorem for finite volume foliations by manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature. It implies that if the leaves are irreducible Hadamard manifolds of geometric rank \(\geq 2\), then the leaves are symmetric.

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