An obstruction to the smoothability of singular nonpositively curved metrics on 4-manifolds by patterns of incompressible tori
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Publication:897002
DOI10.1007/s00039-015-0341-8zbMath1342.53057arXiv1312.2198MaRDI QIDQ897002
Publication date: 16 December 2015
Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2198
\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) space; geometric action; incompressible tori; singular metric of nonpositive curvature
53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching
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