A characterization of affine cylinders (Q1909223)

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A characterization of affine cylinders
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    A characterization of affine cylinders (English)
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    11 March 1996
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    Affine cylinders are characterized as the only hypersurfaces of type number 1 admitting non-flat locally symmetric connections. A class of non-metrizable locally symmetric connections on abstract manifolds is produced. The realization problem for locally symmetric connections of 1-codimensional nullity space is also discussed.
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    affine cylinder
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    hypersurfaces
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    type number
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    locally symmetric connections
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