Projective nilmanifolds (Q1343327)
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Projective nilmanifolds (English)
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18 June 1996
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A nilmanifold is a compact quotient of a nilpotent Lie group by a discrete subgroup. An affine (resp. projective) structure on a \(C^\infty\)-manifold is an atlas whose charts take values in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (resp. \(\mathbb{S}^n\)) and whose coordinate changes are affine (resp. projective) transformations. The author studies properties of affine and projective structures on nilmanifolds. The main results are: 1) On ``filiform'' nilmanifolds, any affine or projective structure is left invariant. 2) There exist nilmanifolds without projective structure.
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affine structure
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nilmanifold
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projective structure
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