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AHS-structures and affine holonomies

Author(s): Andreas Cap
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 1073-1080.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C29, 53C10; Secondary 53C15, 53C30, 53B15
Posted: October 22, 2008
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Abstract: We show that a large class of non-metric, non-symplectic affine holonomies can be realized, uniformly and without case by case considerations, by Weyl connections associated to the natural AHS-structures on certain generalized flag manifolds.


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Additional Information:

Andreas Cap
Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Nordbergstrasse 15, A-1090 Wien, Austria - and - International Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Email: Andreas.Cap@esi.ac.at

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09722-0
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09722-0
Received by editor(s): April 22, 2008
Posted: October 22, 2008
Additional Notes: The author was supported by project P 19500-N13 of the ``Fonds zur Förderung de wissenschaftlichen Forschung'' (FWF)
Communicated by: Jon G. Wolfson
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
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