Decomposition of flat manifolds

DOI10.1112/S0025579300012018MaRDI QIDQ4346290zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrzej Szczepański

Publication date 23 November 1997

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/S0025579300012018

zbMATH Keywords

Bieberbach groupscompact flat Riemannian manifoldsfinite groupsfundamental groupsholonomy groupsmaximal Abelian subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) (G)-structures (53C10) Classification of fiber spaces or bundles in algebraic topology (55R15)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a compact flat Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\), and \(\Gamma\) its fundamental group. Then we have the following exact sequence \(0\to Z^n\to\Gamma\to G\to 0\), where \(Z^n\) is a maximal abelian subgroup of \(\Gamma\) and \(G\) is a finite group isomorphic to the holonomy group of \(M\). Let us call \(\Gamma\) a Bieberbach group. In 1970 A. T. Vasquez proved that for any finite group \(G\) there exists an integer \(n(G)\) with the following property: if \(M\) is any compact flat manifold with holonomy group \(G\) (short \(G\)-manifold) then \(M\) is a fibre bundle over the flat manifold of dimension \(\leq n(G)\) with flat torus as a fibre. In the paper the author defines an invariant \(n'(G)\) by a method apparently different than that used for \(n(G)\). However, he proves that \(n'(G)=n(G)\), (Theorem 3). In addition he characterizes all finite groups with \(n(G)=1\), (Theorem 2). As a corollary (Corollary 2A) he proves that there exists some flat manifold \(M\) such that any flat \(G\)-manifold is a fibre bundle over \(M\) with a flat torus as a fibre.

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