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Thiss article defines a property that can be evaluated for a differential manifold, invariant under diffeomorphisms
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Definition

Symbol-free definition

A differential manifold is said to be negatively curved if it can be equipped with a Riemannian metric with negative sectional curvature.

Definition with symbols

Facts

Cartan-Hadamard theorem

The Cartan-Hadamard theorem states that the universal cover of any negatively curved manfiold is diffeomorphic to Euclidean span (viz \mathbb{R}^n</math>.