Scalar Curvature, Non-Abelian Group Actions, and the Degree of Symmetry of Exotic Spheres
In this paper we analyze the limit set of nonelementary subgroups acting by isometries on the product of two pinched Hadamard manifolds. Following M. Burger’s and P. Albuquerque’s works, we study the properties of Patterson-Sullivan’s measures on the limit sets of graph groups associated to convex cocompact groups.
We obtain new sharp isoperimetric inequalities on a Riemannian manifold equipped with a probability measure, whose generalized Ricci curvature is bounded from below (possibly negatively), and generalized dimension and diameter of the convex support are bounded from above (possibly infinitely). Our inequalities are sharp for sets of any given measure and with respect to all parameters (curvature, dimension and diameter). Moreover, for each choice of parameters, we identify the model spaces which...
We introduce a family of conditions on a simplicial complex that we call local k-largeness (k≥6 is an integer). They are simply stated, combinatorial and easily checkable. One of our themes is that local 6-largeness is a good analogue of the non-positive curvature: locally 6-large spaces have many properties similar to non-positively curved ones. However, local 6-largeness neither implies nor is implied by non-positive curvature of the standard metric. One can think of these results as a higher...