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On the growth of fundamental groups of nonpositive curvature manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Yi-Hu Yang
Yi-Hu Yang
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, Peoples Republic of China.
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Abstract

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Milnor's classic result that the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian manifold of negative sectional curvature has exponential growth is generalised to the case of negative Ricci curvature and non-positive sectional curvature.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , December 1996 , pp. 483 - 487
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1996

References

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