PURPOSE To compare ocular performance and quality of vision in pseudophakic eyes with an aspherical intraocular lens (IOL) or a conventional spherical IOL. SETTING Bretonneau University Hospital, Tours, France. METHODS Twenty patients (40 eyes) were randomly divided in 2 equal groups to bilaterally receive the aspherical Tecnis Z9000 IOL (AMO) or the spherical CeeOn Edge 911 IOL (AMO). Cont...

We consider geometric decompositions of aspherical 4manifolds which fibre over 2-orbifolds. We show first that no such manifold admits infinitely many fibrations over hyperbolic base orbifolds. If E is Seifert fibred over a hyperbolic surface B and either B has at most one cone point of order 2 or the monodromy has image in SL(2,Z) then E it has a decomposition induced from a decomposition of B...

Although Kirby and Siebenmann [13] showed that there are manifolds which do not admit PL structures, the possibility remained that all manifolds could be triangulated. In the late seventies Galewski and Stern [10] constructed a closed 5–manifold M 5 so that every n–manifold, with n 5, can be triangulated if and only if M 5 can be triangulated. Moreover, M 5 admits a triangulation if and only if...

IMPORTANCE Spectacle independence is becoming increasingly important in cataract surgery. Not correcting corneal astigmatism at the time of cataract surgery will fail to achieve spectacle independency in 20% to 30% of patients. OBJECTIVE To compare bilateral aspherical toric with bilateral aspherical control intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in patients with cataract and corneal astigmatism...

We prove the Conley conjecture for a closed symplectically aspherical symplectic manifold: a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a such a manifold has infinitely many periodic points. More precisely, we show that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism with finitely many fixed points has simple periodic points of arbitrarily large period. This theorem generalizes, for instance, a recent result of Hingston estab...

Under mild assumptions on a group π, we prove that the class of complete Riemannian n–manifolds of uniformly bounded negative sectional curvatures and with the fundamental groups isomorphic to π breaks into finitely many tangential homotopy types. It follows that many aspherical manifolds do not admit complete negatively curved metrics with prescribed curvature bounds.

In this article we prove a special case of a conjecture of A. Abrams and R. Ghrist about fundamental groups of certain aspherical spaces. Specifically, we show that the n−point braid group of a linear tree is a right angled Artin group for each n.