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Compact affine manifolds with precompact holonomy are geodesically complete

Differential Geometry 2015-12-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This note proves the geodesic completeness of any compact manifold endowed with a linear connection such that the closure of its holonomy group is compact.

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@article{arxiv.1511.03605,
  title  = {Compact affine manifolds with precompact holonomy are geodesically complete},
  author = {Luis Aké Hau and Miguel Sánchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03605},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Final version to appear in JMAA (corrected two linguistic typos). 3 pages, latex

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