Topological complexity of visibility manifolds

Abstract

A recent result of Bader, Gelander and Sauer shows that for manifolds of pinched negative curvature, the torsion part of the homology can be controlled by the volume. This is done by constructing an efficient simplicial model of the thick part, which also provides another proof of the analogous statement for the free part of the homology, a classical theorem due to Gromov. We will extend these results to more general curvature conditions, namely the case where the sectional curvature can get arbitrarily close to zero, but the visibility axiom still holds.