The virtual solvability of the fundamental group of a compact complete flat spacetime of type (n-2,2)

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(96)00080-6MaRDI QIDQ675082zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tatsuya Kawabe, Tsuyoshi Watabe

Publication date 31 August 1997

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-8641(96)00080-6

zbMATH Keywords

affine crystallographic groupsEuclidean space groupsPoincaré groupspacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

Review text

The authors consider affine crystallographic groups \(\Gamma\), discrete subgroups of \(Aff(n)\), the \(n\)-dimensional real affine group, acting properly discontinuously and uniformly on \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Auslander conjectured that every affine crystallographic group is virtually solvable. A number of cases are known for which this conjecture is true, in particular for the Euclidean space groups and for the crystallographic subgroups of the \(n\)-dimensional Poincaré group \(E(n-1,1)\). The aim of the paper is to extend the validity of Auslander's conjecture to the crystallographic subgroups of \(E(n-2,2)\). For this, however, an additional property is needed for the unipotent radical of the algebraic hull of \(\Gamma\) in \(Aff(n)\). This condition already holds in the spacetime case \(E(3,1)\). While for a space group \(G\) the translations \(G\cap \mathbb{R}^n= \Lambda\) form a lattice group, the situation is more complex in the present case and one has to distinguish between \(\Gamma\) having trivial and nontrivial translations, corresponding to \(\Gamma\cap \mathbb{R}^n= \{0\}\) and \(\Gamma\cap \mathbb{R}^n \neq \{0\}\), respectively. Finally, a problem is suggested for an alternative condition requiring for the point group of \(\Gamma\) to be Zariski dense in \(SO(n-2,2)\).

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