Hadamard manifold
In mathematics, a Hadamard manifold, named after Jacques Hadamard — more often called a Cartan–Hadamard manifold, after Élie Cartan — is a Riemannian manifold (M, g) that is complete and simply connected and has everywhere non-positive sectional curvature.[1][2] By Cartan–Hadamard theorem all Cartan–Hadamard manifold are diffeomorphic to the Euclidean space . Furthermore it follows from the Hopf–Rinow theorem that every pairs of points in a Cartan–Hadamard manifold may be connected by a unique geodesic segment. Thus Cartan–Hadamard manifolds are some of the closest relatives of .
Examples
- The Euclidean space Rn with its usual metric is a Cartan-Hadamard manifold with constant sectional curvature equal to 0.
- Standard n-dimensional hyperbolic space Hn is a Cartan-Hadamard manifold with constant sectional curvature equal to −1.
Properties
- In Cartan-Hadamard Manifolds, the map expp mapping TMp to M is a covering map for all p in M.
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References
- Li, Peter (2012). Geometric Analysis. Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 9781107020641.
- Lang, Serge (1989). Fundamentals of Differential Geometry, Volume 160. Springer. pp. 252–253. ISBN 9780387985930.
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