Moduli spaces of flat Riemannian metrics on 3- and 4-dimensional closed manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2023.101996MaRDI QIDQ6040643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karla Garcia

Publication date 19 May 2023

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00587

zbMATH Keywords

Bieberbach groupsflat manifoldsmoduli spacesubgroups of \(SL(2, \mathbb{Z})\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We describe the topology of the moduli spaces of flat metrics for all the 3-dimensional closed manifolds. We give an algebraic description of the moduli spaces for the 4-dimensional closed flat manifolds with a single generator in their holonomy and, in some cases, also study their topology.

Review text

A closed flat Riemannian manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\) is a quotient of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) by a freely acting Bieberbach group \(\pi\). \(\pi\) is a subgroup of the group \(\mathrm{Iso}(n)\) of isometries of \(\mathbb{R}^n\). It has been shown by \textit{J. A. Wolf} [Geom. Dedicata 2, 127--132 (1973; Zbl 0279.53039)], that the moduli space \(\mathcal{M}_{\text{flat}}(M)\) of flat metrics on \(M\) is in one-to-one correspondence with the double coset space \[ \mathrm{Iso}(n)\backslash C/N_\pi, \] where \(C\) is a subspace of the group \(\mathrm{Aff}(n)\) of affine transformations of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(N_\pi\) is the normalizer of \(\pi\) in \(\mathrm{Aff}(n)\). In the paper under review the homeomorphism type and the topology of \(\mathcal{M}_{\text{flat}}(M)\) are discussed in the case that \(n=3\) or \(n=4\). For \(n=4\) this is only done for the case that the holonomy of \(M\) is generated by one element. For \(n=3\), it is completely decided depending on \(\pi\) if \(\mathcal{M}_{\text{flat}}(M)\) is contractible or not. For \(n=4\) a complete list of homeomorphhism types for \(\mathcal{M}_{\text{flat}}(M)\) (subject to the above restrictions) is given. But only for some of them it is decided whether they are contractible or not. The proofs are based on classifications of Bieberbach groups in dimension three and four.

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