English

On the Filling Invariants at Infinity of Hadamard Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

We study the filling invariants at infinity div_{k} for Hadamard manifolds defined by Brady and Farb in [Filling-invariants at infinity for manifolds of nonpositive curvature]. Among other results, we give a positive answer to the question they posed: whether these invariants can be used to detect the rank of a symmetric space of noncompact type.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0401162,
  title  = {On the Filling Invariants at Infinity of Hadamard Manifolds},
  author = {Mohamad A. Hindawi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0401162},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages; New results have been added (section 5). To appear in Geometriae Dedicata