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Manifolds with conullity at most two as graph manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-09-06 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We find necessary and sufficient conditions for a complete nn-dimensional Riemannian manifold of finite volume, whose curvature tensor has nullity at least n2n-2, to be a geometric graph manifold. In the process, we show that Nomizu's conjecture, well known to be false in general, is true for manifolds with finite volume.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06572,
  title  = {Manifolds with conullity at most two as graph manifolds},
  author = {Luis A. Florit and Wolfgang Ziller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06572},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages, 8 figures. Two references added plus minor corrections

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