Existence of flats in manifolds of nonpositive curvature

DOI10.1007/BF01389092MaRDI QIDQ1820443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael T. Anderson, Viktor Schroeder

Publication date 1986

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/143370

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupm-flatnon- visibilitynonpositive sectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Integral geometry (53C65)

Review text

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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