(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6395, U.S.A
Abstract:
We study the filling invariants at infinity divk for Hadamard manifolds defined by Brady and Farb [ Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350(8) (1998), 3393–3405]. Among other results, we give a positive answer to the question they posed: whether these invariants can be used to detect the rank of a symmetric space of noncompact type.