Manifolds of nonpositive curvature and their buildings

Keith Burns; Ralf Spatzier

Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS (1987)

  • Volume: 65, page 35-59
  • ISSN: 0073-8301

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Burns, Keith, and Spatzier, Ralf. "Manifolds of nonpositive curvature and their buildings." Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS 65 (1987): 35-59. <http://eudml.org/doc/104020>.

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Citations in EuDML Documents

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  1. Sylvain Barré, Polyèdres finis de dimension 2 à courbure 0 et de rang 2
  2. Werner Ballmann, On the Dirichlet problem at infinity for manifolds of non-positive curvature (résumé)
  3. Keith Burns, Ralf Spatzier, On topological Tits buildings and their classification
  4. Patrick Eberlein, Jens Heber, A differential geometric characterization of symmetric spaces of higher rank
  5. Sylvain Barré, Sur les polyèdres de rang 2
  6. Werner Ballmann, Michael Brin, Orbihedra of nonpositive curvature
  7. Pierre Pansu, Le flot géodésique des variétés riemanniennes à courbure négative

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