Nonhomogeneous locally free actions of the affine group

Abstract

We classify smooth locally free actions of the real affine group on closed orientable three-dimensional manifolds up to smooth conjugacy. As a corollary, there exists a nonhomogeneous action when the manifold is the unit tangent bundle of a closed surface with a hyperbolic metric.

Authors

Masayuki Asaoka

Department of Mathematics
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8502
Japan