The fundamental group of a compact flat Lorentz space form is virtually polycyclic

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214438430zbMath0546.53039OpenAlexW1485112325WikidataQ115187827 ScholiaQ115187827MaRDI QIDQ797851

Yoshinobu Kamishima, William M. Goldman

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214438430

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal groupaffine manifolddiscrete subgroupsolvmanifoldLorentz manifoldsvirtually polycyclic groupflat Lorentz space formMilnor's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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