As Avez showed (in 1970), the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian manifold of nonpositive sectional curvature has exponential growth if and only if it is not flat. After several generalizations from Gromov, Zimmer, Anderson, Burger and Shroeder, the ...
Transformation invariance is an important property in pattern recognition, where different observations of the same object typically receive the same label. This paper focuses on a transformation invariant distance measure that represents the minimum dista ...
The real homology of a compact Riemannian manifold M is naturally endowed with the stable norm. The stable norm on H-1 (M. R) arises from the Riemannian length functional by homogenization. It is difficult and interesting to decide which norms on the finit ...