On the Existence of Flat Planes in Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature

DOI10.2307/2160630zbMath0840.53033OpenAlexW4230258623MaRDI QIDQ4318394

Martin R. Bridson

Publication date: 2 January 1995

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2160630

zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0)-spacesGromov hyperbolic groupssubquadratic isoperimetric inequalityvisibility spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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