2016 Volume 70 Issue 2 Pages 267-280
A harmonic, Kähler Hadamard manifold (M2m, g), m ≥ 2, with Ricci curvature Ric =−(m + 1)/2 and volume entropy ρ(M, g)= m, is biholomorphically isometric to a complex hyperbolic space of holomorphic sectional curvature −1, provided (M, g) is of hypergeometric type. A similar characterization of the real hyperbolic space and the quaternionic hyperbolic space is also obtained in terms of Ricci curvature and volume entropy, without hypergeometric assumption.