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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 MM which is not a sphere (dimM4)(\dim M \geq 4) does not admit a real projective structure. Cooper and Goldman gave an example of a 33-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 MnM^n with the infinite fundamental group Z2Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 \ast \mathbb{Z}_2, for any n4n\geq 4, 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