Properly discontinuous groups of affine transformations: a survey

DOI10.1023/A:1012019004745zbMath0999.20042OpenAlexW122719354MaRDI QIDQ5955164

Herbert Abels

Publication date: 26 June 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012019004745

zbMATH Keywords

groups of affine transformationsaffine crystallographic groupsAuslander's conjecturevirtually solvable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Related Items (26)

A properly discontinuous free group of affine transformations ⋮ Margulis spacetimes via the arc complex ⋮ Proper affine actions: a sufficient criterion ⋮ Geodesics in Margulis spacetimes ⋮ Proper affine actions on semisimple Lie algebras ⋮ McShane-type identities for affine deformations ⋮ Proper affine deformations of the one-holed torus ⋮ Criterion of proper actions of abelian affine discontinuous groups for ℝn ⋮ Construction of Milnorian representations ⋮ Paradoxical sets and sets with two removable points ⋮ The linear part of an affine group acting properly discontinuously and leaving a quadratic form invariant ⋮ Affine semigroups acting properly discontinuously on a hyperbolic space ⋮ On symmetry groups of quasicrystals ⋮ Flat Affine, Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historical Perspective ⋮ Crooked halfspaces ⋮ The pressure metric on the Margulis multiverse ⋮ Proper affine actions and geodesic flows of hyperbolic surfaces ⋮ On flat complete causal Lorentzian manifolds ⋮ Affine deformations of a three-holed sphere ⋮ The Auslander conjecture for NIL-affine crystallographic groups. ⋮ Fundamental domains for properly discontinuous affine groups ⋮ Nil-affine crystallographic actions of virtually polycyclic groups ⋮ Representations having vectors fixed by a Levi subgroup associated to a real form ⋮ Crystallographic actions on contractible algebraic manifolds ⋮ On a theorem of Auslander ⋮ The Auslander conjecture for groups leaving a form of signature \((n-2,2)\) invariant.

This page was built for publication: Properly discontinuous groups of affine transformations: a survey