Some aspherical manifolds

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-87-05507-4zbMath0631.57019MaRDI QIDQ1094710

Michael W. Davis

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

actions of Coxeter groups; closed aspherical n-dimensional manifold; real semisimple split Lie algebras; space of real, tridiagonal, symmetric, \((n+1)\times (n+1)\) matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C30: Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds

57R15: Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.)

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