Two papers which changed my life: Milnor's seminal work on flat manifolds and bundles

zbMATH Open1327.53003arXiv1108.0216MaRDI QIDQ2948701FDOQ2948701

Authors: William M. Goldman 

Publication date: 6 October 2015

Abstract: We survey developments arising from Milnor's 1958 paper, "On the existence of a connection with curvature zero" and his 1977 paper, "On fundamental groups of complete affinely flat manifolds".

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0216

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zbMATH Keywords

rigidityflat connectionfundamental groupflexibilityMilnor-Wood inequalitycomplete affinely flat manifoldsKneser's theorem on surface maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Differential topology (57R99) Global differential geometry (53C99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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