Properly discontinuous actions on Hilbert manifolds

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Abstract: In this article we study properly discontinuous actions on Hilbert manifolds giving new examples of complete Hilbert manifolds with nonnegative, respectively nonpositive, sectional curvature with infinite fundamental group. We also get examples of complete infinite dimensional K"ahler manifolds with positive holomorphic sectional curvature and infinite fundamental group in contrast with the finite dimensional case and we classify abelian groups acting linearly, isometrically and properly discontinuously on Stiefel manifolds. Finally, we classify homogeneous Hilbert manifolds with constant sectional curvature.


The authors of this paper study properly discontinuous actions on infinite dimensional Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds. For a torsion-free group \(G\) they construct a properly discontinuous isometric action of \(H=G\times \mathbb{Z}_{p_1^{\alpha_1}}\times\dots\times \mathbb{Z}_{p_k^{\alpha_k}}\) with \(p_i\neq p_j\) for \(i\neq j\), on the real Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds of the Hilbert space \(l_2(G)\). As a consequence there are complete Hilbert manifolds of nonnegative and nonconstant sectional curvature and fundamental group \(H\). Actions of \(G\) on complex Grassmannians and the classification of infinite-dimensional homogeneous manifolds of constant curvature are also discussed.



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