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Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature

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  • © 1985

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Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematics (PM, volume 61)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Lectures on Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature

    1. Simply Connected Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature

    2. Groups of Isometries

    3. Finiteness Theorems

    4. Strong Rigidity of Locally Symmetric Spaces

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About this book

This volume presents a complete and self-contained description of new results in the theory of manifolds of nonpositive curvature. It is based on lectures delivered by M. Gromov at the Collège de France in Paris. Among others these lectures threat local and global rigidity problems (e.g., a generalization of the famous Mostow rigidity theorem) and finiteness results for manifolds of finite volume. V. Schroeder wrote up these lectures, including complete and detailed proofs. A lot of background material is added to the first lectures. Therefore this book may also serve as an introduction to the subject of nonpositively curved manifolds. The latest progress in this area is reflected in the article of W. Ballmann describing the structure of manifolds of higher rank.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Werner Ballmann

  • Math. Institut der Universität, Bonn, West Germany

    Werner Ballmann

  • Inst. des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

    Mikhael Gromov

  • Math. Institut der Universität, Münster, Germany

    Viktor Schroeder

  • Math. Institut der Universität, Basel, Switzerland

    Viktor Schroeder

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