Tomanov's crystallographic actions conjecture for real algebraic homogeneous spaces

Let GG be a real algebraic group, let H\subgroupGH\subgroup G contain a maximal reductive subgroup of GG, and let Γ\subgroupG\Gamma\subgroup G. Say that Γ\Gamma acts crystallographically on G/HG/H when it is discrete, acts properly on G/HG/H, and the quotient Γ\G/H\Gamma\backslash G/H is compact. Tomanov's conjecture. If Γ\Gamma acts crystallographically on G/HG/H, then Γ\Gamma is virtually polycyclic.

This generalizes Auslander's conjecture from affine space to homogeneous spaces of real algebraic groups. The paper states that Tomanov proved this stronger statement for dimensions at most five, while the general case remains open.

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Jeffrey Danciger, Todd A. Drumm, William M. Goldman and Ilia Smilga, “Proper actions of discrete groups of affine transformations”, arXiv:2002.09520 (2020).

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