Abstract Methods for improving upper and lower bounds various coverings of planar sets are proposed. New numbers partition constituents presented, suggestions the generalization presented methods offered.

It is known that a definably compact group G is an extension of a compact Lie group L by a divisible torsion-free normal subgroup. We show that the o-minimal higher homotopy groups of G are isomorphic to the corresponding higher homotopy groups of L. As a consequence, we obtain that all abelian definably compact groups of a given dimension are definably homotopy equivalent, and that their unive...

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This paper gives an upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the universal cover of a complete, stable minimal surface in hyperbolic space, and a sharper one for least area disks.

We give a general structure theory for reconstructing group actions on sets without any assumptions on the group, the action, or the set on which the group acts. Using certain ‘local data’ D from the action we build a group G(D) of the data and a space X (D) with an action of G(D) on X (D) that arise naturally from the data D. We use these to obtain an approximation to the original group G, the...

This is a survey on known results and open problems about closed aspherical manifolds, i.e., connected closed manifolds whose universal coverings are contractible. Many examples come from certain kinds of non-positive curvature conditions. The property aspherical, which is a purely homotopy theoretical condition, has many striking implications about the geometry and analysis of the manifold or ...