Compact negatively curved manifolds (of dim [unk] 3,4) are topologically rigid

DOI10.1073/pnas.86.10.3461zbMath0676.53047WikidataQ33855489 ScholiaQ33855489MaRDI QIDQ3831625

Lowell Jones, Francis Thomas Farrell

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.10.3461

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groups; finite volume; surgery; sectional curvatures; homotopy equivalence; topological rigidity; homeomorphism group; infinite volume; Mostow's rigidity theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

57R52: Isotopy in differential topology

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