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Filling-invariants at infinity for manifolds of nonpositive curvature
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Abstract:

In this paper we construct and study isoperimetric functions at infinity for Hadamard manifolds. These quasi-isometry invariants give a measure of the spread of geodesics in such a manifold.
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Additional Information
  • Noel Brady
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853
  • Email: brady@math.cornell.edu
  • Benson Farb
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago 5734 University Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637
  • MR Author ID: 329207
  • Email: farb@math.uchicago.edu
  • Received by editor(s): April 18, 1995
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 25, 1996
  • Additional Notes: The second author is supported in part by an N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  • © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), 3393-3405
  • MSC (1991): Primary 53C23, 20F32, 57M07
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-98-02317-4
  • MathSciNet review: 1608281