Crystallographic groups and flat manifolds from complex reflection groups

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Abstract: Following an idea of Gonc{c}alvez, Guaschi and Ocampo on the usual braid group we construct crystallographic and Bieberbach groups as (sub)quotients of the generalized braid group associated to an arbitrary complex reflection group.


The paper is a generalization of an article by \textit{D. L. Gonçsalves}, \textit{J. Guaschi} and \textit{O. Ocampo} [``Quotients of the Artin braid groups and crystalographic groups, Preprint, \url{arxiv:1503.04527}]. In that paper, the authors proved that the quotient of the braid group \(B_n\) by the commutator subgroup \([P_n, P_n]\) of the pure braid group is a crystallographic group. Morever, they proved that this quotient has no 2-torsion. The author of the paper under review proves that all the results of the above article can be generalized for the case where the group \(B_n\) is a generalized braid group \(B\) of a (finite) complex reflection group in the sense of an article by \textit{M. Broúe} et al. [J. Reine Angew. Math. 500, 127--190 (1998; Zbl 0921.20046)]. The author considers the quotient \(B/[P, P]\), where \(P\) is the pure braid group. He proves that this quotient is always a crystallographic group, and that it never contains elements of order 2. Another result is a construction of elements of finite order inside \(B/[P, P]\). In this part, torsion-free examples of Bieberbach groups in the above way are given and the question which one has a Kähler structure is considered.











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