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- Fundamental Group
- Sectional Curvature
- Topological Entropy
- Geodesic Flow
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Ballmann, W. (1986). Structure of manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature. In: Shiohama, K., Sakai, T., Sunada, T. (eds) Curvature and Topology of Riemannian Manifolds. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1201. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075644
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