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Publications and source records attributed to Rafał Lutowski.
We prove a conjecture of Dekimpe, De Rock and Penninckx concerning the existence of eigenvalues one in certain elements of finite groups acting irreducibly on a real vector space of odd dimension. This yields a sufficient condition for a closed flat manifold to be an $R_{\infty}$-manifold.
We present an algorithmic approach to the problem of existence of spin structures on flat manifolds. We apply our method in the cases of flat manifolds of dimensions 5 and 6.
We prove a conjecture of Dekimpe, De Rock and Penninckx concerning the existence of eigenvalues one in certain elements of finite groups acting irreducibly on a real vector space of odd dimension. This yields a sufficient condition for a closed flat manifold to be an $R_{\infty}$-manifold.
We introduce a conjecture of Dekimpe, De Rock and Penninckx and sketch some major steps in its proof. This text presents an extended account of the talk of the first author given at the conference Ischia Group Theory 2024.
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of spinc structures on real Bott manifolds.
Combinatorial Hantzsche-Wendt groups were introduced by W. Craig and P.A. Linnell. Every such a group $G_n$, where $n$ is a natural number, encodes the holonomy action of any $n+1$-dimensional Hantzsche-Wendt manifold. $G_2$ is the fundamental group of the classical Hantzsche-Wendt manifold -- the only one $3$-dimensional oriented flat manifold with non-cyclic holonomy group. In this article, we describe the structure of the automorphism and of the outer automorphism groups of combinatorial Hantzsche-Wendt groups.
In 1970 Vasquez proved that to every finite group $G$ we can assign a natural number $n(G)$ with the property that every flat manifold with holonomy $G$ is a total space of a fiber bundle, with the fiber being a flat torus and the base space -- a flat manifold of dimension less than or equal to $n(G)$. In particular, this means that the characteristic algebra of any flat manifold with holonomy $G$ vanishes in dimension greater than $n(G)$. We define a complex analog of Vasquez invariant, in which finite groups are considered as holonomy groups of compact flat Kähler manifolds.
It has been shown by several authors that there exists a non-solvable Bieberbach group of dimension $15$. In this note we show that this is in fact a minimal dimension for such kind of groups.
In this article we show how to calculate the group of automorphisms of flat Kähler manifolds. Moreover we are interested in the problem of classification of such manifolds up to biholomorphism. We consider these problems from two points of view. The first one treats the automorphism group as a subgroup of the group of affine transformations, while in the second one we analyze it using automorphisms of complex tori. This leads us to the analogues of the Bieberbach theorems in the complex case. We end with some examples, which in particular show that in general the finiteness of the automorphism group depends not only on the fundamental group of a flat manifold.
Let $M$ be a real Bott manifold with Kähler structure. Using Ishida characterization \cite{I11} we give necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the spin-structure on $M$. In proof we use the technic developed in \cite{PS16} and characteristic classes.
Using a combinatorial description of Stiefel-Whitney classes of closed flat manifolds with diagonal holonomy representation, we show that no Hantzsche-Wendt manifold of dimension greater than three does not admit a spin$^c$ structure.
We are interested in the question of the existence of flat manifolds for which all $\mathbb R$-irreducible components of the holonomy representation are either absolutely irreducible, of complex or of quaternionic type. In the first two cases such examples are well known. But the existence of the third type of flat manifolds was unknown to the authors. In this article we construct such an example. Moreover, we present a list of finite groups for which a construction of manifolds of quaternionic type is impossible.
We show that a rational holonomy representation of any flat manifold except torus must have at least two non-equivalent irreducible subrepresentations. As an application we show that if a Kähler flat manifold is not a torus then its holonomy representation is reducible.
We consider low dimensional diffuse Bieberbach groups. In particular we classify diffuse Bieberbach groups up to dimension 6. We also answer a question from [S. Kionke, J. Raimbault, On geometric aspects of diffuse groups, Doc. Math. 21 (2016), page 887] about minimal dimension of a non-diffuse Bieberbach group which does not contain three-dimensional Hantzsche-Wendt group.
Almost-flat manifolds were defined by Gromov as a natural generalisation of flat manifolds and as such share many of their properties. Similarly to flat manifolds, it turns out that the existence of a spin structure on an almost-flat manifold is determined by the canonical orthogonal representation of its fundamental group. Utilising this, we classify the spin structures on all four-dimensional almost-flat manifolds that are not flat. Out of 127 orientable families, there are exactly 15 that are non-spin, the rest are in fact parallelizable.
For each integer $d$ at least two, we construct non-spin closed oriented flat manifolds with holonomy group $\mathbb Z_2^d$ and with the property that all of their finite proper covers have a spin structure. Moreover, all such covers have trivial Stiefel-Whitney classes.
We show that every Hantzsche-Wendt group is an epimorphic image of a certain Fibonacci group.
Let $Γ$ be a crystallographic group of dimension $n,$ i.e. a discrete, cocompact subgroup of $\operatorname{Isom}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ = $O(n)\ltimes\mathbb{R}^n.$ For any $n\geq 2,$ we construct a crystallographic group with a trivial center and a trivial outer automorphism group.