Flat affine, projective and conformal structures on manifolds: a historical perspective

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_14zbMATH Open1454.57002OpenAlexW2980428313MaRDI QIDQ5129778FDOQ5129778

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupcovering spaceaffine connectionreal projective spaceprojective connectionlocally homogeneous geometric structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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