The geometric fibration conjecture for reductive homogeneous spaces
The geometric fibration conjecture for reductive homogeneous spaces
Let be a reductive homogeneous space, with maximal compact subgroup and , and set . Let be a torsion-free subgroup of acting properly discontinuously and cocompactly on . Then is the associated compact quotient.
Geometric fibration conjecture. The group is the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold , and there exists a smooth -equivariant fiber bundle
whose fibers are -translates of , where is the universal cover of .
This conjecture predicts that compact quotients virtually fiber with fibers modeled on the maximal compact subspace. It is known in several examples, including certain group manifolds and , but remains open in general.
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Fanny Kassel, Yosuke Morita and Nicolas Tholozan, “Compact quotients of homogeneous spaces and homotopy theory of sphere bundles”, arXiv:2601.05857 (2026).
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