scholarly journals The fundamental group of non-negatively curved manifolds

1998 ◽  
Vol 0040 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
David Wraith
2014 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 23-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungwoon Kim ◽  
Thilo Kuessner

Let M be the interior of a connected, oriented, compact manifold V of dimension at least 2. If each path component of ∂V has amenable fundamental group, then we prove that the simplicial volume of M is equal to the relative simplicial volume of V and also to the geometric (Lipschitz) simplicial volume of any Riemannian metric on M whenever the latter is finite. As an application we establish the proportionality principle for the simplicial volume of complete, pinched negatively curved manifolds of finite volume.


Author(s):  
Christine Escher ◽  
Catherine Searle

Abstract Let ℳ 0 n {\mathcal{M}_{0}^{n}} be the class of closed, simply connected, non-negatively curved Riemannian n-manifolds admitting an isometric, effective, isotropy-maximal torus action. We prove that if M ∈ ℳ 0 n {M\in\mathcal{M}_{0}^{n}} , then M is equivariantly diffeomorphic to the free, linear quotient by a torus of a product of spheres of dimensions greater than or equal to 3. As a special case, we then prove the Maximal Symmetry Rank Conjecture for all M ∈ ℳ 0 n {M\in\mathcal{M}_{0}^{n}} . Finally, we show the Maximal Symmetry Rank Conjecture for simply connected, non-negatively curved manifolds holds for dimensions less than or equal to 9 without additional assumptions on the torus action.


2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 986-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. SAMBARINO

AbstractLet $G$ be a real algebraic semi-simple Lie group and $\Gamma $ be the fundamental group of a closed negatively curved manifold. In this article we study the limit cone, introduced by Benoist [Propriétés asymptotiques des groupes linéaires. Geom. Funct. Anal. 7(1) (1997), 1–47], and the growth indicator function, introduced by Quint [Divergence exponentielle des sous-groupes discrets en rang supérieur. Comment. Math. Helv. 77 (2002), 503–608], for a class of representations $\rho : \Gamma \rightarrow G$ admitting an equivariant map from $\partial \Gamma $ to the Furstenberg boundary of the symmetric space of $G, $ together with a transversality condition. We then study how these objects vary with the representation.


2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 1141-1161
Author(s):  
S. FENLEY ◽  
R. FERES ◽  
K. PARWANI

AbstractLet (M,ℱ) be a compact codimension-one foliated manifold whose leaves are endowed with Riemannian metrics, and consider continuous functions on M that are harmonic along the leaves of ℱ. If every such function is constant on leaves, we say that (M,ℱ) has the Liouville property. Our main result is that codimension-one foliated bundles over compact negatively curved manifolds satisfy the Liouville property. A related result for ℝ-covered foliations is also established.


2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-266
Author(s):  
M. Cocos

AbstractThe present paper is concerned with the study of the L2 cohomology spaces of negatively curved manifolds. The first half presents a finiteness and vanishing result obtained under some curvature assumptions, while the second half identifies a class of metrics having non-trivial L2 cohomology for degree equal to the half dimension of the space. For the second part we rely on the existence and regularity properties of the solution for the heat equation for forms.


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