Flat Bundles with Solvable Holonomy

DOI10.2307/2043968zbMath0474.55014OpenAlexW4236717392MaRDI QIDQ3928683

Morris W. Hirsch, William M. Goldman

Publication date: 1981

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2043968

zbMATH Keywords

vanishing of characteristic classesaffine manifold with solvable fundamental groupbundle with linear solvable structure groupexistence of a flat connectionvirtually trivial bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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Chern's conjecture for special affine manifolds, Flat Bundles with Solvable Holonomy. II. Obstruction Theory, Unnamed Item, Topological structure of complete Riemannian manifolds with cyclic holonomy groups

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