Two papers which changed my life: Milnor's seminal work on flat manifolds and flat bundles

2011/08/01 by William M. Goldman, Goldman, William M.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1108.0216

29 pages, 7 figures, presented at "Frontiers in Complex Dynamics" in celebration of John Milnor's 80th birthday (Banff International Research Station, 24 February 2011)

arxiv created 2012/04/09 · arxiv updated 2012/04/10

Abstract

We survey developments arising from Milnor's 1958 paper, "On the existence of a connection with curvature zero" and his 1977 paper, "On fundamental groups of complete affinely flat manifolds".

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