Tits topology and fundamental groups of compact Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/s00229-007-0077-3zbMath1133.53028WikidataQ115388391 ScholiaQ115388391MaRDI QIDQ2457907

Seong-Hun Paeng

Publication date: 23 October 2007

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-007-0077-3

zbMATH Keywords

cut locus; Busemann function; polynomial volume growth; amenable group; displacement function; Bieberbach group; volume entropy; equivariant homeomorphism; ideal boundary; flat space; center of mass; nonpositive sectional curvature; almost solvable group; compact length spaces; conjecture of Freire and Mané; entropy for geodesic flow; finitely additive \(K\)-invariant probability measure on \(K\); geodesic axis; injectivity radius of non oriented Grassmannian manifold; LK-digital spaces; Riemannian tori; Tits topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

53C23: Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces

Cites Work

• Manifolds of nonpositive curvature
• The fundamental group of compact manifolds without conjugate points
• Groups of polynomial growth and expanding maps. Appendix by Jacques Tits
• Amenable isometry groups of Hadamard spaces
• Riemannian tori without conjugate points are flat
• Free subgroups in linear groups
• Curvature of Leaves in Amenable Foliations
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