Flat Affine, Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historical Perspective

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_14zbMath1454.57002OpenAlexW2980428313MaRDI QIDQ5129778

William M. Goldman

Publication date: 23 October 2020

Published in: Geometry in History (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_14

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupaffine connectioncovering spacereal projective spaceprojective connectionlocally homogeneous geometric structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03) History of group theory (20-03)

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