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 ${\displaystyle \mathbf {R} ^{n}}$. 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 ${\displaystyle \mathbf {R} ^{n}}$.

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 exp_p mapping TM_p to M is a covering map for all p in M.

See also[]

• Cartan–Hadamard theorem
• Hadamard space
• Cartan–Hadamard conjecture

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