Geometry of Nonpositively Curved Manifolds

Patrick Eberlein

Contents

1. Notation and preliminaries
2. Structure of Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type
3. Tits Geometries
4. Action of Isometries on M(00)
5. A Splitting Criterion
6. Isometries of Rⁿ
7. Spaces with Euclidean Factors
8. Mostow Rigidity Theorem
9. Rigidity Theorems and Characterizations of Symmetric Spaces of Higher Rank
10. Fundamental Group and Geometry