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Isometry groups with
radical, and aspherical Riemannian manifolds with large
symmetry, I
Oliver Baues and Yoshinobu Kamishima |
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Geometry & Topology 27 (2023) 1–50
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DOI: 10.2140/gt.2023.27.1
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Abstract |
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Every compact aspherical Riemannian manifold admits a canonical series of orbibundle structures with infrasolv fibers, which is called its infrasolv tower. The tower arises from the solvable radicals of isometry group actions on the universal covers. Its length and the geometry of its base measure the degree of continuous symmetry of an aspherical Riemannian manifold. We say that the manifold has large local symmetry if it admits a tower of orbibundle fibrations with locally homogeneous fibers whose base is a locally homogeneous space. We construct examples of aspherical manifolds with large local symmetry which do not support any locally homogeneous Riemannian metrics. |
Keywords
aspherical manifolds, divisible manifolds, infrasolv tower,
solvable radical, large symmetry, proper group actions,
infrasolv manifolds, locally homogeneous manifolds, smooth
toral actions
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 53C12, 53C30, 57S30
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Publication
Received: 3 April 2019
Revised: 7 October 2020
Accepted: 2 October 2021
Published: 1 May 2023
Proposed: Martin R Bridson
Seconded: Paul Seidel, Anna Wienhard
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Authors |
| Oliver Baues | |
| Department of Mathematics University of Fribourg Fribourg Switzerland |
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| Yoshinobu Kamishima | |
| Department of Mathematics Josai University Sakado Japan |
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| © 2023 MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers). Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). |
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