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Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference 2008
March 13-15, 2008
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI, USA

Organizers
Ric Ancel, Karen Brucks, Craig Guilbault, Chris Hruska, Suzanne Hruska, Boris Okun (UWM); Paul Bankston (Marquette); Lois Kailhofer (Alverno College).

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Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity
by
Chris Connell
Indiana University

We examine the question of when a continuous map between two negatively curved closed manifolds can be homotopic to a diffeomorphism. We provide sufficient conditions involving the induced map on the ideal boundaries of their universal covers.

Date received: February 27, 2008

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