Nontoral pinched Anosov maps

Nontoral pinched Anosov maps
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1981), 462-464 Request permission

We show Anosov maps satisfying a certain spectral property can arise on nilmanifolds of any nilpotent degree, settling a conjecture of Brin.

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