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Relating exponential growth in a manifold and its fundamental group

Author(s): Anthony Manning
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 995-997.
MSC (2000): Primary 20F69, 37D40; Secondary 20F65, 37B40
Posted: October 14, 2004
MathSciNet review: 2117199
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Abstract: We relate the growth rate of volume in the universal cover of a compact Riemannian manifold to the growth in the fundamental group in terms of word length in a given set of generators and the length of geodesics representing these generators.


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Additional Information:

Anthony Manning
Affiliation: Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Email: akm@maths.warwick.ac.uk

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07755-X
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07755-X
Received by editor(s): December 10, 2003
Posted: October 14, 2004
Communicated by: Michael Handel
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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