On fundamental groups of complete affinely flat manifolds

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(77)90004-4MaRDI QIDQ1240920zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Milnor

Publication date 1977

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(77)90004-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Flatness and tameness of topological manifolds (57N45) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

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