Smooth manifolds with infinite fundamental group admitting no real projective structure
Geometric Topology
2018-11-26 v1
Abstract
It is an important question whether it is possible to put a geometry on a given manifold or not. It is well known that any simply connected closed manifold admitting a real projective structure must be a sphere. Therefore, any simply connected manifold which is not a sphere does not admit a real projective structure. Cooper and Goldman gave an example of a -dimensional manifold not admitting a real projective structure and this is the first known example. In this article, by generalizing their work we construct a manifold with the infinite fundamental group , for any , admitting no real projective structure.
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@article{arxiv.1811.09137,
title = {Smooth manifolds with infinite fundamental group admitting no real projective structure},
author = {Hatice Çoban},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09137},
year = {2018}
}
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26 pages, 4 figures