Topological Characterization of Flat and Almost Flat Riemannian Manifolds M n (n � 3, 4)

DOI10.2307/2374318zbMath0521.57018OpenAlexW2326591344WikidataQ104173590 ScholiaQ104173590MaRDI QIDQ3670195

Wu-Chung Hsiang, Francis Thomas Farrell

Publication date: 1983

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2374318

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupWhitehead groupcrystallographic groupsclosed aspherical manifoldnilpotent subgroup of finite indexflat and almost flat Riemannian manifoldsvirtually poly-Z groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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