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Actions without nontrivial singular orbits on Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature

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We give a topological description of negatively curved Riemannian manifolds which are acted on by a closed and connected subgroup of isometries with the property that there is no nontrivial singular orbit.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

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Mirzaie, R. Actions without nontrivial singular orbits on Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature. Acta Math. Hungar. 147, 172–178 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-015-0520-y

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