The torus-fibration conjecture for closed manifolds with flat degenerate metrics

Let MM be a closed manifold carrying a flat, possibly degenerate, non-negative definite metric gg of rank mm.

Torus-fibration conjecture. MM is finitely covered by a manifold diffeomorphic to a fiber bundle over an mm-dimensional torus.

This conjecture proposes a global structural description for manifolds with flat possibly degenerate metrics, extending the paper's local results on flat coordinates. The supplied source does not indicate that the conjecture has been resolved.

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S. Bandyopadhyay, B. Dacorogna, V. S. Matveev and M. Troyanov, “Bernhard Riemann 1861 revisited: existence of flat coordinates for an arbitrary bilinear form”, arXiv:2109.03098 (2023).

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