scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1082138
The paper sketches recent progress in studying the topology and geometry of geometrically finite negatively curved manifolds. The differences between the geometry and topology of noncompact complex and real hyperbolic manifolds are examined. The study is based on the following structure theorem. Theorem 4.1. Let \(N\) be a connected, simply connected nilpotent Lie group, \(C\) a compact group of automorphisms of \(N\), and \(\Gamma\) a discrete subgroup of the semidirect product \(N\rtimes C\). Then there exist a connected Lie subgroup \(V\) of \(N\) and a finite index normal subgroup \(\Gamma^*\) of \(\Gamma\) with the following properties: (1) There exists \(b\in N\) such that \(b\Gamma b^{-1}\) preserves \(V\), (2) \(V/b\Gamma b^{-1}\) is compact, (3) \(b\Gamma^* b^{-1}\) acts on \(V\) by left translations, and the action is free. The authors apply the above theorem to prove some results about Heisenberg manifolds \({\mathcal H}_n/G\), where \({\mathcal H}_n= \mathbb{C}^{n-1}\times \mathbb{R}\) is a Heisenberg group and \(G\) is a discrete group freely acting by isometries. For most of the proofs of the theorems presented in the article, the reader is referred to other papers. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0872.00036].
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