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In this article, we consider a closed rank one $C^infty$ Riemannian manifold $M$ of nonpositive curvature and its universal cover $X$. Let $b_t(x)$ be the Riemannian volume of the ball of radius $t>0$ around $xin X$, and $h$ the topological entropy of the geodesic flow. We obtain the following Margulis-type asymptotic estimates [lim_{tto infty}b_t(x)/frac{e^{ht}}{h}=c(x)] for some continuous function $c: Xto mathbb{R}$. We prove that the Margulis function $c(x)$ is in fact $C^1$. If $M$ is a surface of nonpositive curvature without flat strips, we show that $c(x)$ is constant if and only if $M$ has constant negative curvature.
We apply some of the ideas of the Ph.D. Thesis of G. A. Margulis to Teichmuller space. Let x be a point in Teichmuller space, and let B_R(x) be the ball of radius R centered at x (with distances measured in the Teichmuller metric). We obtain asympt
We give an explicit formula for the second variation of the logarithm of the Selberg zeta function, $Z(s)$, on Teichmuller space. We then use this formula to determine the asymptotic behavior as $text{Re} (s) to infty$ of the second variation. As a c
We exhibit a closed aspherical 5-manifold of nonpositive curvature that fibers over a circle whose fundamental group is hyperbolic relative to abelian subgroups such that the fiber is a closed aspherical 4-manifold whose fundamental group is not hyperbolic relative to abelian subgroups.
Motivated by the recent work of Chu-Lee-Tam on the nefness of canonical line bundle for compact K{a}hler manifolds with nonpositive $k$-Ricci curvature, we consider a natural notion of {em almost nonpositive $k$-Ricci curvature}, which is weaker than
We study the convergence of volume-normalized Betti numbers in Benjamini-Schramm convergent sequences of non-positively curved manifolds with finite volume. In particular, we show that if $X$ is an irreducible symmetric space of noncompact type, $X