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

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".

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)

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• Locally homogeneous geometric manifolds
• The Auslander conjecture for dimension less than 7

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