Compact flat manifolds and reducibility
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| author | Derdzinski, Andrzej Piccione, Paolo |
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| contents | Hiss and Szczepański proved in 1991 that the holonomy group of any compact flat Riemannian manifold, of dimension at least two, acts reducibly on the rational span of the Euclidean lattice associated with the manifold via the first Bieberbach theorem. Geometrically, their result states that such a manifold must admit a nonzero proper parallel distribution with compact leaves. We study algebraic and geometric properties of the sublattice-spanned holonomy-invariant rational vector subspaces that exist due to the above theorem, and of the resulting compact-leaf foliations of compact flat manifolds. The class consisting of the former subspaces, in addition to being closed under spans and intersections, also turns out to admit (usually nonorthogonal) complements. As for the latter foliations, we provide descriptions, first -- and foremost -- of the intrinsic geometry of their generic leaves in terms of that of the original flat manifold and, secondly -- as an essentially obvious afterthought -- of the leaf-space orbifold. The general conclusions are then illustrated by examples in the form of generalized Klein bottles. |
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| spellingShingle | Compact flat manifolds and reducibility Derdzinski, Andrzej Piccione, Paolo Differential Geometry Primary 53C25, 53C12, Secondary 20H15, 53C29 Hiss and Szczepański proved in 1991 that the holonomy group of any compact flat Riemannian manifold, of dimension at least two, acts reducibly on the rational span of the Euclidean lattice associated with the manifold via the first Bieberbach theorem. Geometrically, their result states that such a manifold must admit a nonzero proper parallel distribution with compact leaves. We study algebraic and geometric properties of the sublattice-spanned holonomy-invariant rational vector subspaces that exist due to the above theorem, and of the resulting compact-leaf foliations of compact flat manifolds. The class consisting of the former subspaces, in addition to being closed under spans and intersections, also turns out to admit (usually nonorthogonal) complements. As for the latter foliations, we provide descriptions, first -- and foremost -- of the intrinsic geometry of their generic leaves in terms of that of the original flat manifold and, secondly -- as an essentially obvious afterthought -- of the leaf-space orbifold. The general conclusions are then illustrated by examples in the form of generalized Klein bottles. |
| title | Compact flat manifolds and reducibility |
| topic | Differential Geometry Primary 53C25, 53C12, Secondary 20H15, 53C29 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11411 |