Generalized Hantzsche-Wendt Flat Manifolds

@article{Rossetti2002GeneralizedHF,
  title={Generalized Hantzsche-Wendt Flat Manifolds},
  author={Juan Pablo Rossetti and Andrzej Szczepański},
  journal={Revista Matematica Iberoamericana},
  year={2002},
  volume={21},
  pages={1053-1070}
}
We study the family of closed Riemannian n-manifolds with holonomy group isomorphic to Z2n-1, which we call generalized Hantzsche-Wendt manifolds. We prove results on their structure, compute some invariants, and find relations between them, illustrated in a graph connecting the family. 
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