6 papers
The entropy of Gromov-Thurston manifolds and branched coverings
Nicola Cavallucci, Merlin Incerti-Medici
We develop a general theory for the dynamics of the geodesic flow of locally CAT(k) branched coverings and we show that it does not depend on the specific covering but only on the…
CAT(0) spaces quasi-isometric to Euclidean spaces
Nicola Cavallucci, Andrea Sambusetti
We show that if a proper, geodesically complete, CAT(0) homology manifold is quasi-isometric to the Euclidean space R^n then it is homeomorphic to R^n. On the other hand, we show t…
Otal-Peigné's Theorem for Gromov-hyperbolic spaces
Nicola Cavallucci
We extend the classical Otal-Peigné's Theorem to the class of proper, Gromov-hyperbolic spaces that are line-convex. Namely, we prove that when a group acts discretely and virtual…
Bishop-Jones' Theorem and the ergodic limit set
Nicola Cavallucci
For a proper, Gromov-hyperbolic metric space and a discrete, non-elementary, group of isometries, we define a natural subset of the limit set at infinity of the group called the er…
Convergence and collapsing of CAT-lattices
Nicola Cavallucci, Andrea Sambusetti
We study the theory of convergence for CAT-lattices (that is groups acting geometrically on proper, geodesically complete CAT-spaces) and their quotients (CAT-o…
Finiteness of CAT(0) group actions
Nicola Cavallucci, Andrea Sambusetti
We prove some finiteness results for discrete isometry groups of uniformly packed CAT-spaces with uniformly bounded codiameter (up to group isomorphism), and for CAT$…