Actions of discrete groups on nonpositively curved spaces

DOI10.1007/BF01445254zbMATH Open0856.20024OpenAlexW2027034711MaRDI QIDQ1817309FDOQ1817309

Authors: Michael Kapovich, Bernhard Leeb 

Publication date: 12 February 1997

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/165457

Recommendations

• Groups acting on spaces of non-positive curvature
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• On the dimension of CAT(0) spaces where mapping class groups act.
• Some groups having only elementary actions on metric spaces with hyperbolic boundaries.
• Aspects of non positive curvature for linear groups with no infinite order unipotents

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsactionsgroups of isometriesclosed manifoldsnonpositively curved metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Synthetic differential geometry (51K10)

Cites Work

• The Geometries of 3-Manifolds
• Manifolds of nonpositive curvature
• On asymptotic cones and quasi-isometry classes of fundamental groups of 3-manifolds
• Compact manifolds of nonpositive curvature
• Some relations between the metric structure and the algebraic structure of the fundamental group in manifolds of nonpositive curvature
• 3-manifolds with(out) metrics of nonpositive curvature
• Abelian and solvable subgroups of the mapping class group
• The diffeomorphism group of a compact Riemann surface
• A certain type of irregular algebraic surfaces
• BOUNDED COCYCLES AND COMBINGS OF GROUPS

Cited In (24)

• Cubical geometry in the polygonalisation complex
• On the orbit function of discrete groups in negative curvature
• Finite group actions on compact negatively curved manifolds
• Topological and geometric properties of graph-manifolds
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• Contractible, hyperbolic but non-CAT(0) complexes
• Aspects of non positive curvature for linear groups with no infinite order unipotents
• Hierarchically hyperbolic spaces. II: Combination theorems and the distance formula
• Coarse injectivity, hierarchical hyperbolicity and semihyperbolicity
• On the simplicial volumes of fiber bundles
• Semisimple actions of mapping class groups on CAT(0) spaces
• Random walks on weakly hyperbolic groups
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Croke-Kleiner admissible groups: property (QT) and quasiconvexity
• Divergence, thick groups, and short conjugators
• Connectivity properties of group actions on non-positively curved spaces
• A combinatorial take on hierarchical hyperbolicity and applications to quotients of mapping class groups
• Virtually unipotent curves in some non-NPC graph manifolds
• Conditions on the monodromy for a surface group extension to be CAT(0)
• The fibered isomorphism conjecture for complex manifolds
• Aspherical manifolds, relative hyperbolicity, simplicial volume and assembly maps.
• Right-angled Artin groups and a generalized isomorphism problem for finitely generated subgroups of mapping class groups
• Actions of discrete groups on complex projective spaces
• Discrete Groups and Non-Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces

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