Almost-Bieberbach Groups: Affine and Polynomial Structures [electronic resource] / by Karel Dekimpe.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; 1639Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1996Description: X, 262 p. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783540495642Subject(s): Mathematics | Group theory | Global differential geometry | Mathematics | Group Theory and Generalizations | Differential GeometryAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 512.2 LOC classification: QA174-183Online resources: Click here to access onlineCurrent library | Home library | Call number | Materials specified | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Preliminaries and notational conventions -- Infra-nilmanifolds and Almost-Bieberbach groups -- Algebraic characterizations of almost-crystallographic groups -- Canonical type representations -- The Cohomology of virtually nilpotent groups -- Infra-nilmanifolds and their topological invariants -- Classification survey.
Starting from basic knowledge of nilpotent (Lie) groups, an algebraic theory of almost-Bieberbach groups, the fundamental groups of infra-nilmanifolds, is developed. These are a natural generalization of the well known Bieberbach groups and many results about ordinary Bieberbach groups turn out to generalize to the almost-Bieberbach groups. Moreover, using affine representations, explicit cohomology computations can be carried out, or resulting in a classification of the almost-Bieberbach groups in low dimensions. The concept of a polynomial structure, an alternative for the affine structures that sometimes fail, is introduced.
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