Two papers which changed my life: Milnor's seminal work on flat manifolds and flat bundles

zbMath1327.53003arXiv1108.0216MaRDI QIDQ2948701

William M. Goldman

Publication date: 6 October 2015

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0216

zbMATH Keywords

rigidityfundamental groupflexibilityflat connectionMilnor-Wood inequalitycomplete affinely flat manifoldsKneser's theorem on surface maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Differential topology (57R99) Global differential geometry (53C99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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