Non-existence of affine structures on Seifert fibre spaces

DOI10.1007/BF01445134MaRDI QIDQ1318093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yves Carrière, Françoise Dal'Bo, Gaël Meigniez

Publication date 25 August 1994

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01445134

zbMATH Keywords

affine structureaffinely flat unimodular manifoldcircle bundle over a surfaceSeifert fibre space with hyperbolic base

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a circle bundle over a surface of genus \(\geq 2\). We prove that \(M\) cannot be an affinely flat unimodular manifold. By passing to finite covering, the same result is true if \(M\) is a Seifert fibre space with hyperbolic base. As a corollary if furthermore the first Betti number \(b_ 1(M)\) is zero then there is no affine structure on \(M\). This is for example the case of the Brieskorn manifolds. The main question of existence of affine structures on a nontrivial circle bundle over a surface of genus \(\geq 2\) remains open.

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