The affine group of a compact Riemannian manifold (Q1366527)
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The affine group of a compact Riemannian manifold (English)
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26 October 1997
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Let \(M\) be a compact Riemannian manifold. The isometry group \(\text{Isom}(M)\) of \(M\) becomes naturally a compact Lie group. The author investigates the problem whether there is a geometric structure which is weaker than the metric structure for which the group of transformations of \(M\) preserving this structure becomes a noncompact Lie group. In fact, the author considers the connection of Levi-Civita induced by the Riemannian metric and shows that if there is a noncompact group action preserving this connection, then the manifold is restricted to fairly special types of compact manifolds.
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noncompact group of affine transformations
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compact Riemannian manifold
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