Structure of manifolds of nonpositive curvature. I

DOI10.2307/1971373zbMath0589.53047OpenAlexW4244992316MaRDI QIDQ1074138

Werner Ballmann, Patrick Eberlein, Michael Brin

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1971373

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldsfundamental grouptotally geodesicgeodesicfirst integralsnonpositive sectional curvaturek-flat

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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