Obstructions to nonpositive curvature for open manifolds

DOI10.1112/plms/pdu021zbMath1306.53026arXiv1208.5220MaRDI QIDQ2922882

Igor Belegradek

Publication date: 15 October 2014

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5220

zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvature; isometry group; Hadamard manifold; homotopy equivalent; nonpositively curved manifold; complex and subcomplex; tangential homotopy type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S30: Discontinuous groups of transformations

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions

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