4-dimensional locally CAT(0)-manifolds with no Riemannian smoothings

DOI10.1215/00127094-1507259zbMATH Open1237.57015arXiv1002.4235OpenAlexW2951854291WikidataQ115240694 ScholiaQ115240694MaRDI QIDQ662415FDOQ662415

Michael W. Davis, Jean-François Lafont, Tadeusz Januszkiewicz

Publication date: 22 February 2012

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct examples of smooth 4-dimensional manifolds M supporting a locally CAT(0)-metric, whose universal cover X satisfy Hruska's isolated flats condition, and contain 2-dimensional flats F with the property that the boundary at infinity of F defines a nontrivial knot in the boundary at infinity of X. As a consequence, we obtain that the fundamental group of M cannot be isomorphic to the fundamental group of any Riemannian manifold of nonpositive sectional curvature. In particular, M is a locally CAT(0)-manifold which does not support any Riemannian metric of nonpositive sectional curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4235

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zbMATH Keywords

4-dimensional manifoldCAT(0)-metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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