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Hölder Compactification for Some Manifolds with Pinched Negative Curvature Near Infinity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Eric Bahuaud
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, U.S.A. e-mail:ebahuaud@math.univ-montp2.fr , marsh tracey@hotmail.com
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Abstract

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We consider a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $M$ and give conditions on a compact submanifold $K\,\subset \,M$ so that the outward normal exponential map off the boundary of $K$ is a diffeomorphism onto $M\backslash K$. We use this to compactify $M$ and show that pinched negative sectional curvature outside $K$ implies $M$ has a compactification with a well-defined Hölder structure independent of $K$. The Hölder constant depends on the ratio of the curvature pinching. This extends and generalizes a 1985 result of Anderson and Schoen.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2008

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