On the Number of Nontrivial Projective Transformations of Closed Manifolds


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Abstract

We show that for a closed Riemannian manifold the quotient of the group of projective transformations by the group of isometries contains at most two elements unless the metric has constant positive sectional curvature or every projective transformation is an affine transformation.

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V. S. Matveev

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

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Email: vladimir.matveev@uni-jena.de
Germany, Jena, 07737

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