N. Brady et B. Farb, FILLING-INVARIANTS AT INFINITY FOR MANIFOLDS OF NONPOSITIVE CURVATURE, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 350(8), 1998, pp. 3393-3405
In this paper we construct and study isoperimetric functions at infini
ty for Hadamard manifolds. These quasi-isometry invariants give a meas
ure of the spread of geodesics in such a manifold.