Complete affine locally flat manifolds with free fundamental group

DOI10.1007/BF01104978zbMath0611.57023MaRDI QIDQ1087191

Gregory A. Margulis

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Soviet Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental group; solvable subgroup of finite index; affine group A(3); complete locally flat affine manifold; free non-abelian subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

22E40: Discrete subgroups of Lie groups

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

57S30: Discontinuous groups of transformations

57R19: Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology

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