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Complete projective connections

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v5

Abstract

The first examples of complete projective connections are uncovered: normal projective connections on surfaces whose geodesics are all closed and embedded are complete, as are normal projective connections induced from complete affine connections with slowly decaying positive Ricci curvature.

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@article{arxiv.math/0504082,
  title  = {Complete projective connections},
  author = {Benjamin McKay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504082},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

29 pages, no figures, v.2 minor changes, added reference to Kuiper, v.3 minor corrections, v.4 added reference to Tanaka and SL(2) example, v. 5 reference to Gorinov