Curvature and Topology of Riemannian Manifolds [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the 17th International Taniguchi Symposium held in Katata, Japan, Aug. 26–31, 1985 / edited by Katsuhiro Shiohama, Takashi Sakai, Toshikazu Sunada.

Structure of manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature -- Combinatorial problems in spectral geometry -- A vanishing theorem for piecewise constant curvature spaces -- L-subgroups in spaces of nonpositive curvature -- On a compactification of the set of Riemannian manifolds with bounded curvatures and diameters -- Large Riemannian manifolds -- Analytic inequalities, and rough isometries between non-compact Riemannian manifolds -- Gap theorems for certain submanifolds of euclidean space and hyperbolic space form II -- A pinching problem for locally homogeneous spaces -- Remarks on the injectivity radius estimate for almost 1/4-pinched manifolds -- Non-homogeneous Kähler-Einstein metrics on compact complex manifolds -- Curvature deformations -- The first eigenvalue of the laplacian of an isoparametric minimal hypersurface in a unit sphere -- On deformation of Riemannian metrics and manifolds with positive curvature operator -- Quasiconformal mappings and manifolds of negative curvature -- Helical immersions -- On topological Blaschke conjecture III -- Critical points of Busemann functions on complete open surfaces -- L-functions in geometry and some applications -- Stability of harmonic maps and eigenvalues of laplacian -- Uniformly locally convex filtrations on complete riemannian manifolds -- Einstein metrics with positive scalar curvature.