Graphs and Gromov hyperbolicity of non-constant negatively curved surfaces

In this paper we obtain the equivalence of the Gromov hyperbolicity between an extensive class of complete Riemannian surfaces with pinched negative curvature and certain kind of simple graphs, whose edges have length 1, constructed following an easy triangular design of geodesics in the surface.     

Gromov hyperbolicity of Denjoy Domains

In this paper we characterize the Gromov hyperbolicity of the double of a metric space. This result allows to give a characterization of the hyperbolic Denjoy domains, in terms of the distance to of the points in some geodesics. In the particular case of trains (a kind of Riemann surfaces which includes the flute surfaces), we obtain more explicit criteria which depend just on the lengths of what we have called fundamental geodesics. Research partially supported by three grants from M.E.C. (MTM 2006-11976, MTM 2006-13000-C03-02 and MTM 2004-21420-E), Spain.     

Pseudoconvexity and Gromov hyperbolicity

We give an estimate for the distance functions related to the Bergman, Carathéodory, and Kobayashi metrics on a bounded strictly pseudoconvex domain with C²-smooth boundary. Our formula relates the distance function on the domain with the Carnot- Carathéodory metric on the boundary. As a corollary we conclude that the domain equipped with the any of the standard invariant distances is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov. When the boundary of the domain is C³-smooth, our estimate is exact up to a fixed additive term.     

Growth tightness of negatively curved manifolds

We show that any closed negatively curved manifold X is growth tight: this means that its universal covering $\text{X}$ has an exponential growth rate $\text{ω(}\text{X}\text{)}$ which is strictly greater than the exponential growth rate $\text{ω(}\text{X}\text{)}$ of any other normal covering $\text{X}$. Moreover, we give an explicit formula which estimates the difference between $\text{ω(}\text{X}\text{)}$ and $\text{ω(}\text{X}\text{)}$ in terms of the systole of $\text{X}$ and of some geometric parameters of the base manifold X. Then, we describe some applications to systoles and periodic geodesics. To cite this article: A. Sambusetti, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).     

Quasiisometries between negatively curved Hadamard manifolds

Let H₁, H₂ be the universal covers of two compact Riemannianmanifolds (of dimension not equal to 4) with negative sectionalcurvature. Then every quasiisometry between them lies at a finitedistance from a bilipschitz homeomorphism. As a consequence,every self-quasiconformal map of a Heisenberg group (equippedwith the Carnot metric and viewed as the ideal boundary of complexhyperbolic space) of dimension at least 5 extends to a self-quasiconformalmap of the complex hyperbolic space.     

Gromov hyperbolicity of planar graphs

We prove that under appropriate assumptions adding or removing an infinite amount of edges to a given planar graph preserves its non-hyperbolicity, a result which is shown to be false in general. In particular, we make a conjecture that every tessellation graph of ?² with convex tiles is non-hyperbolic; it is shown that in order to prove this conjecture it suffices to consider tessellation graphs of ?² such that every tile is a triangle and a partial answer to this question is given. A weaker version of this conjecture stating that every tessellation graph of ?² with rectangular tiles is non-hyperbolic is given and partially answered. If this conjecture were true, many tessellation graphs of ?² with tiles which are parallelograms would be non-hyperbolic.     

Diophantine approximation for negatively curved manifolds

Let M be a geometrically finite pinched negatively curved Riemannian manifold with at least one cusp. Inspired by the theory of Diophantine approximation of a real (or complex) number by rational ones, we develop a theory of approximation of geodesic lines starting from a given cusp by ones returning to it. We define a new invariant for M, theHurwitz constant of M. It measures how well all geodesic lines starting from the cusp are approximated by ones returning to it. In the case of constant curvature, we express the Hurwitz constant in terms of lengths of closed geodesics and their depths outside the cusp neighborhood. Using the cut locus of the cusp, we define an explicit approximation sequence for a geodesic line starting from the cusp and explore its properties. We prove that the modular once-punctured hyperbolic torus has the minimum Hurwitz constant in its moduli space. Received: 24 October 2000; in final form: 10 November 2001 / Published online: 17 June 2002     

Geometric characterizations of Gromov hyperbolicity

We prove the equivalence of three different geometric properties of metric-measure spaces with controlled geometry. The first property is the Gromov hyperbolicity of the quasihyperbolic metric. The second is a slice condition and the third is a combination of the Gehring–Hayman property and a separation condition. Mathematics Subject Classification (1991) 30F45     

Gromov hyperbolicity of periodic planar graphs

The study of hyperbolic graphs is an interesting topic since the hyperbolicity of a geodesic metric space is equivalent to the hyperbolicity of a graph related to it.The main result in this paper is a very simple characterization of the hyperbolicity of a large class of periodic planar graphs.     

Unclouding the sky of negatively curved manifolds

Let M be a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold, with sectional curvature K ≤ −1. Under certain assumptions on the geometry of ∂M, which are satisfied for instance if M is a symmetric space, or has dimension 2, we prove that given any family of horoballs in M, and any point x₀ outside these horoballs, it is possible to shrink uniformly, by a finite amount depending only on M, these horoballs so that some geodesic ray starting from x₀ avoids the shrunk horoballs. As an application, we give a uniform upper bound on the infimum of the heights of the closed geodesics in the finite volume quotients of M.Received: January 2004 Accepted: August 2004     

L p -cohomology of negatively curved manifolds

We compute theL ^p -cohomology spaces of some negatively curved manifolds. We deal with two cases: manifolds with finite volume and sufficiently pinched negative curvature, and conformally compact manifolds. This paper has been (partially) supported by the European Commission through the Research Training Network HPRN-CT-1999-00118 “Geometric Analysis”.     

Tubes and eigenvalues for negatively curved manifolds

We investigate the structure of the spectrum near zero for the Laplace operator on a complete negatively curved Riemannian manifoldM. If the manifold is compact and its sectional curvaturesK satisfy 1 ≤K < 0, we show that the smallest positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian is bounded below by a constant depending only on the volume ofM. Our result for a complete manifold of finite volume with sectional curvatures pinched between −a² and −1 asserts that the number of eigenvalues of the Laplacian between 0 and (n− 1)²/4 is bounded by a constant multiple of the volume of the manifold with the constant depending ona and the dimension only. Research supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, and the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.     

Lipschitz precompactness for closed negatively curved manifolds

We prove that, given a integer and a group , the class of closed Riemannian -manifolds of uniformly bounded negative sectional curvatures and with fundamental groups isomorphic to is precompact in the Lipschitz topology. In particular, the class breaks into finitely many diffeomorphism types.

     

Gromov hyperbolicity in Cartesian product graphs

If X is a geodesic metric space and x ₁, x ₂, x ₃ ∈ X, a geodesic triangle T = {x ₁, x ₂, x ₃} is the union of the three geodesics [x ₁ x ₂], [x ₂ x ₃] and [x ₃ x ₁] in X. The space X is δ-hyperbolic (in the Gromov sense) if any side of T is contained in a δ-neighborhood of the union of the two other sides, for every geodesic triangle T in X. If X is hyperbolic, we denote by δ(X) the sharp hyperbolicity constant of X, i.e. δ(X) = inf{δ ≥ 0: X is δ-hyperbolic}. In this paper we characterize the product graphs G ₁ × G ₂ which are hyperbolic, in terms of G ₁ and G ₂: the product graph G ₁ × G ₂ is hyperbolic if and only if G ₁ is hyperbolic and G ₂ is bounded or G ₂ is hyperbolic and G ₁ is bounded. We also prove some sharp relations between the hyperbolicity constant of G ₁ × G ₂, δ(G ₁), δ(G ₂) and the diameters of G ₁ and G ₂ (and we find families of graphs for which the inequalities are attained). Furthermore, we obtain the precise value of the hyperbolicity constant for many product graphs.