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Journal of Differential Geometry 57 (2001), 233-238.

The metric fibrations of Euclidean space

Detlef Gromoll & Gerard Walschap

Abstract:

The purpose of this note is to complete the classification of metric fibrations in Euclidean space begun in [1]. Building on our techniques there, we show that regardless of dimension, the fibers are always the orbits of a free isometric group action by generalized glide rotations. A key ingredient of the argument is the fact that in the global setting, these fibrations satisfy a strong algebraic rigidity.