The linear part of an affine group acting properly discontinuously and leaving a quadratic form invariant

DOI10.1007/s10711-010-9554-zzbMath1228.22012OpenAlexW1970169061MaRDI QIDQ634710

Herbert Abels, G. A. Soifer, Gregory A. Margulis

Publication date: 16 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-010-9554-z

zbMATH Keywords

crystallographic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

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Proper affine actions: a sufficient criterion ⋮ Properly discontinuous group actions on affine homogeneous spaces ⋮ Geodesics in Margulis spacetimes ⋮ Proper affine actions on semisimple Lie algebras ⋮ Construction of Milnorian representations ⋮ Action of \(w_0\) on \(V^L\) for orthogonal and exceptional groups ⋮ Affine semigroups acting properly discontinuously on a hyperbolic space ⋮ Proper affine actions for right-angled Coxeter groups ⋮ Representations having vectors fixed by a Levi subgroup associated to a real form

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