The hyperbolic meaning of the Milnor-Wood inequality

DOI10.1016/j.exmath.2011.08.002zbMath1250.57029arXiv1006.5403MaRDI QIDQ765899

Daniel V. Mathews

Publication date: 22 March 2012

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5403

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometry; Milnor-Wood inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

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