A generalization of Gallots's theorem

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2012
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  • Differential Geometry
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  • A classical theorem of Gallot states that a Riemannian cone over a compact manifold is either irreducible or flat. Such a cone has compact quotients by radial homotheties (which form a 1-parameter group). More generally, we define cone-like manifolds to be those non-compact manifolds that admit compact quotients by discrete subgroups of homotheties and show that, under some tameness assumption (concerning the life-time of incomplete geodesics), all cone-like manifolds are either irreducible or flat. This assumption holds, in particular, for any small cone-like deformation of Riemannian cones.
    Using the natural correspondence between cone-like manifolds and compact conformal manifolds with a closed Weyl structure, our result can be restated as follows: Every closed, non-exact, tame Weyl structure on a compact conformal manifold is either flat, or has irreducible holonomy. As an application, we describe the compact conformal manifolds carrying a tame closed Weyl structure with non-generic holonomy.
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