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Large Scale Geometry of 4-dimensional Closed Nonpositively Curved Real Analytic Manifolds

Metric Geometry 2007-05-23 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the asymptotic cones of the universal covering spaces of closed 4-dimensional nonpositively curved real analytic manifolds. We show that the existence of nonstandard components in the Tits boundary, discovered by Christoph Hummel and Victor Schroeder, depends only on the quasi-isometry type of the fundamental group.

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@article{arxiv.math/0412258,
  title  = {Large Scale Geometry of 4-dimensional Closed Nonpositively Curved Real Analytic Manifolds},
  author = {Mohamad A. Hindawi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0412258},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages; Minor changes. To appear in International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN)