Crystallographic actions on contractible algebraic manifolds

Details Crystallographic actions on contractible algebraic manifolds Crystallographic actions on contractible algebraic manifolds

2010-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2749v1

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

22 pages

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We study properly discontinuous and cocompact actions of a discrete subgroup $\Gamma$ of an algebraic group $G$ on a contractible algebraic manifold $X$. We suppose that this action comes from an algebraic action of $G$ on $X$ such that a maximal reductive subgroup of $G$ fixes a point. When the semisimple rank of $G$ is at most one or the dimension of $X$ is at most three, we show that $\Gamma$ is virtually polycyclic. When $\Gamma$ is virtually polycyclic, we show that the action reduces to a NIL-affine crystallographic action. As applications, we prove that the generalized Auslander conjecture for NIL-affine actions holds up to dimension six and give a new proof of the fact that every virtually polycyclic group admits a NIL-affine crystallographic action.

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