On hyperbolic groups with spheres as boundary

DOI10.4310/JDG/1299766682MaRDI QIDQ531752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang Lück, Shmuel Weinberger, Arthur Bartels

Publication date 20 April 2011

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3725, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1299766682

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupaspherical manifoldtorsion-free hyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: Let G be a torsion-free hyperbolic group and let n > 5 be an integer. We prove that G is the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold if the boundary of G is homeomorphic to an (n-1)-dimensional sphere.

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