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2006 Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups
Igor Belegradek, Vitali Kapovitch
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Acta Math. 196(2): 229-260 (2006). DOI: 10.1007/s11511-006-0005-5

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We give a diffeomorphism classification of pinched negatively curved manifolds with amenable fundamental groups, namely, they are precisely the Möbius band, and the products of R with the total spaces of flat vector bundles over closed infranilmanifolds.

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Igor Belegradek. Vitali Kapovitch. "Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups." Acta Math. 196 (2) 229 - 260, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11511-006-0005-5

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Received: 14 July 2005; Published: 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 31 January 2017

zbMATH: 1123.53016
MathSciNet: MR2275833
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/s11511-006-0005-5

Subjects:
Primary: 53C20

Keywords: collapsing , horosphere , infranilmanifold , negative curvature , nilpotent , parabolic group

Rights: 2006 © Institut Mittag-Leffler

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