The deformation of flat connections and affine manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9387-9MaRDI QIDQ849372zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mihail Cocos

Publication date 25 February 2010

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511303

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicaffine manifoldslocally metric connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Geodesically complete affine manifolds are quotients of the Euclidean space through a properly discontinuous action of a subgroup of affine Euclidean transformations. An equivalent definition is that the tangent bundle of such a manifold admits a flat, symmetric and complete connection. If the completeness assumption is dropped, the manifold is not necessarily obtained as the quotient of the Euclidean space through a properly discontinuous group of affine transformations. In fact the universal cover may no longer be the Euclidean space. The main result of this paper states that all compact affine manifolds have 0 Euler characteristic and that the fundamental group of these manifolds is non-trivial.

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