Presented By: Geometry Seminar - Department of Mathematics
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: The natural flow and homological vanishing in nonpositively curved manifolds
CHRIS CONNELL. (INDIANA U)
We introduce a flow on nonpositively curved manifolds inspired by the natural maps of Besson, Courtois and Gallot for which the Morse theoretic data can be computed in terms of the geometric structure of the manifold. We present several applications of this flow, including conditions for the nonexistence of complex subvarieties and estimates of the Cheeger constant on such manifolds. Most importantly, we show the vanishing of the homology of discrete subgroups of isometries of a Hadamard space above a certain threshold which is computable from the geometry the Hadamard space and the critical exponent of the representation of the fundamental group. Time permitting, we will present some examples including those arising from Anosov representations in higher rank lie groups. This is joint work with Shi Wang and Ben McReynolds.
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