Pinching, Pontrjagin classes, and negatively curved vector bundles
DOI10.1007/s002220100132zbMath1025.53016arXivmath/0001132MaRDI QIDQ5944893
Publication date: 26 November 2003
Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0001132
fundamental group; sectional curvature; vector bundle; word-hyperbolic group; Betti number; complete Riemannian metric; finite aspherical cell complex; finitely presented group; Hadamard manifold; intersection preserving homotopy type; pinched negatively curved manifold; pinching invariant; rational Pontryagin class; tangentially homotopy equivalent; virtually nilpotent group
57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology
53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching
53C23: Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces
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