Almost-Bieberbach groups with prime order holonomy

Karel Dekimpe; Wim Malfait

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1996)

  • Volume: 151, Issue: 2, page 167-176
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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The main issue of this paper is an attempt to find a decomposition theorem for infra-nilmanifolds in the same spirit as a result of A. Vasquez for flat Riemannian manifolds. That is: we look for infra-nilmanifolds with prime order holonomy which can be obtained as a fiber space with a non-trivial nilmanifold as fiber and an infra-nilmanifold as its base.  In this perspective, we prove the following algebraic result: if E is an almost-Bieberbach group with prime order holonomy, then there is a normal subgroup Π of E contained in the Fitting subgroup of E such that E/Π is an almost-Bieberbach group either having a Fitting subgroup with center isomorphic to the infinite cyclic group, or having an underlying crystallographic group with torsion and a center coinciding with that of its Fitting subgroup.

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Dekimpe, Karel, and Malfait, Wim. "Almost-Bieberbach groups with prime order holonomy." Fundamenta Mathematicae 151.2 (1996): 167-176. <http://eudml.org/doc/212188>.

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