Filling-invariants at infinity for manifolds of nonpositive curvature
Authors:
Noel Brady and Benson Farb
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
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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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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.
Article copyright:
© Copyright 1998
American Mathematical Society
