Exotic smoothings of hyperbolic manifolds which do not support pinched negative curvature
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Abstract:
Constructed in this note are examples of topological manifolds M supporting at least two distinct smooth structures ${\mathcal {M}_1}$ and ${\mathcal {M}_2}$, where ${\mathcal {M}_1}$ is a complete, finite volume, real hyperbolic manifold, while ${\mathcal {M}_2}$ cannot support a complete, finite volume, pinched negatively curved Riemannian metric.References
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- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 121 (1994), 627-630
- MSC: Primary 57R55; Secondary 53C21, 57R10, 57R60
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1203985-6
- MathSciNet review: 1203985