Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity of negatively curved manifolds

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2012.V8.N1.A7MaRDI QIDQ429563zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chris Connell

Publication date 20 June 2012

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/PAMQ.2012.V8.N1.A7

zbMATH Keywords

barycenter methodnegative curvaturequasi-Möbiusquasiconformalsmooth rigiditysmooth structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Rigidity results (53C24) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55)

Review text

The author establishes sufficient conditions for a continuous map of nonzero degree between a closed manifold and a negatively curved closed manifold to be homotopic to a smooth covering map, and in particular a diffeomorphism when the degree is one. When the domain manifold is negatively curved, the conditions can be stated in terms of the sphere maps formed by composition of the geodesic projections and the asymptotic boundary map induced by the original map on the universal covers.

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