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Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups

Differential Geometry 2010-08-31 v4

Abstract

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

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0402268,
  title  = {Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups},
  author = {Igor Belegradek and Vitali Kapovitch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0402268},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

formula corrected, see page 24

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