The Chern conjecture for affinely flat manifolds using combinatorial methods

DOI10.1023/A:1023664521970MaRDI QIDQ1397898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Suhyoung Choi

Publication date 6 August 2003

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1023664521970

zbMATH Keywords

affinely flat manifoldamenable groupChern's conjectureprojectively flat manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

A well known conjecture of Chern asserts that a compact affinely flat manifold \(M^n\) has vanishing Euler characteristic. In this paper the author proves this conjecture when \(M^n\) decomposes along codimension one submanifolds with finite holonomy into n-dimensional pieces with amenable holonomy. The conjecture had been proved by \textit{M. W. Hirsch} and \textit{W. P. Thurston} [Ann. Math. (2) 101, 369-390 (1975; Zbl 0321.57015)] when the holonomy group is build up out of amenable groups, by taking free products and finite extensions. The author uses a polyhedral Gauss Bonnet formula as in \textit{H. Kim} and \textit{H. Lee} [Topology Appl. 40, 195-201 (1991; Zbl 0727.57022)].

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