Abstract.This paper manages to apply the Farrell-Jones theory on algebraic AT-groups of closed negatively curved riemannian manifolds to Gromov's hyperbolic group theory. The paper reaches the conclusion that for any finite polyhedron K with negative curvature, 'Wh{nxK) = 0 .
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