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Closed, negatively curved Riemannian manifolds with a flat horosphere are hyperbolic

Differential Geometry 2017-02-06 v2

Abstract

We prove that the existence of one flat horosphere in the universal cover of a closed, strictly quarter pinched, negatively curved Riemannian manifold of dimension n with n greater than or equal to 3, implies that the manifold is homothetic to a real hyperbolic manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1701.06883,
  title  = {Closed, negatively curved Riemannian manifolds with a flat horosphere are hyperbolic},
  author = {Gérard Besson and Gilles Courtois and Sa'ar Hersonsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06883},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

The authors withdraw this paper because of an error in lemma 3.10