16-dimensional compact projective planes with 3 fixed points.
In this paper we construct, for each aspherical oriented -manifold , a -dimensional class in the -homology of whose norm combined with the Gromov simplicial volume of gives a characterization of those nonzero degree maps from to which are homotopic to a covering map. As an application we characterize those degree one maps which are homotopic to a homeomorphism in term of isometries between the bounded cohomology groups of and .
We determine in the form of curves corresponding to strictly monotone functions as well as the components of affine connections for which any image of under a compact-free group of affinities containing the translation group is a geodesic with respect to . Special attention is paid to the case that contains many dilatations or that is a curve in . If is a curve in and is the translation group then we calculate not only the components of the curvature and the Weyl tensor but...