Flat bundles with solvable holonomy. II. Obstruction theory

Goldman, William M.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0620007-7

Flat bundles with solvable holonomy. II. Obstruction theory
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by William M. Goldman

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1981), 175-178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0620007-7

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Abstract:

Necessary and sufficient conditions for a connected solvable Lie group $G$ are given so that every flat principal $G$-bundle over a ${\text {CW}}$-complex is trivial after passing to a finite covering space.

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