Outer automorphism groups of Bieberbach groups (Q2365214)
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Outer automorphism groups of Bieberbach groups (English)
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23 February 1997
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For the fundamental group \(\Gamma\) of a flat manifold \(M\) (=a Bieberbach group), the paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions on \(\text{Out}(\Gamma)\) to be infinite. It also compares that result with a previous one due to \textit{H. L. Porteous} [Topology 11, 307-315 (1972; Zbl 0237.58015)], and gives several applications and examples of Bieberbach groups that have either finite, or infinite \(\text{Out}(\Gamma)\), and are quasi-isometric to \(\text{GL}(n-1,\mathbb{Z})\), whose flat manifold \(M\) either have or have not Anosov automorphisms.
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fundamental groups
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flat manifolds
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Bieberbach groups
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Anosov automorphisms
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outer automorphism groups
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