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Compact asymptotically harmonic manifolds

• A complete Riemannian manifold without conjugate points is said to be asymptotically harmonic if the mean curvature of its horospheres is a universal constant. Examples of asymptotically harmonic manifolds include flat spaces and rank-one locally symmetric spaces of noncompact type. In this paper we show that this list exhausts the compact asymptotically harmonic manifolds under a variety of assumptions including nonpositive curvature or Gromov-hyperbolic fundamental group. We then present a new characterization of symmetric spaces amongst the set of all visibility manifolds.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 53C24, 53C35; Secondary: 37D40.

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