scholarly journals On the homotopy type of Eschenburg spaces with positive sectional curvature

2004 ◽  
Vol 132 (12) ◽  
pp. 3725-3729 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Astey ◽  
E. Micha ◽  
G. Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Homotopy Type ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Eschenburg Spaces

scholarly journals Open manifolds with non-homeomorphic positively curved souls

2019 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID GONZÁLEZ-ÁLVARO ◽  
MARCUS ZIBROWIUS
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Existence Results ◽  
Positive Answer ◽  
Open Manifold ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Open Manifolds ◽  
Curved Manifolds ◽  
Eschenburg Spaces ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Positively Curved

AbstractWe extend two known existence results to simply connected manifolds with positive sectional curvature: we show that there exist pairs of simply connected positively-curved manifolds that are tangentially homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic, and we deduce that an open manifold may admit a pair of non-homeomorphic simply connected and positively-curved souls. Examples of such pairs are given by explicit pairs of Eschenburg spaces. To deduce the second statement from the first, we extend our earlier work on the stable converse soul question and show that it has a positive answer for a class of spaces that includes all Eschenburg spaces.

scholarly journals Positively curved 6-manifolds with simple symmetry groups

2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
FUQUAN FANG
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Isometry Group ◽  
Symmetry Groups ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Identity Component ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Lie Subgroup ◽  
Positively Curved

Let M be a simply connected compact 6-manifold of positive sectional curvature. If the identity component of the isometry group contains a simple Lie subgroup, we prove that M is diffeomorphic to one of the five manifolds listed in Theorem A.

scholarly journals Bounding Lagrangian widths via geodesic paths

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (12) ◽  
pp. 2143-2183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Strom Borman ◽  
Mark McLean
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
New Method ◽  
Finite Width ◽  
Energy Capacity ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Floer Cohomology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ambient Manifold ◽  
Open Map ◽  
Geodesic Paths

AbstractThe width of a Lagrangian is the largest capacity of a ball that can be symplectically embedded into the ambient manifold such that the ball intersects the Lagrangian exactly along the real part of the ball. Due to Dimitroglou Rizell, finite width is an obstruction to a Lagrangian admitting an exact Lagrangian cap in the sense of Eliashberg–Murphy. In this paper we introduce a new method for bounding the width of a Lagrangian$Q$by considering the Lagrangian Floer cohomology of an auxiliary Lagrangian$L$with respect to a Hamiltonian whose chords correspond to geodesic paths in$Q$. This is formalized as a wrapped version of the Floer–Hofer–Wysocki capacity and we establish an associated energy–capacity inequality with the help of a closed–open map. For any orientable Lagrangian$Q$admitting a metric of non-positive sectional curvature in a Liouville manifold, we show the width of$Q$is bounded above by four times its displacement energy.

scholarly journals Almost Positive Curvature on an Irreducible Compact Rank 2 Symmetric Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 2020 (5) ◽  
pp. 1346-1365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason DeVito ◽  
Ezra Nance
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Lie Group ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Compact Symmetric Space ◽  
Rank 2 ◽  
Set Of Points ◽  
Positively Curved

Abstract A Riemannian manifold is said to be almost positively curved if the set of points for which all two-planes have positive sectional curvature is open and dense. We show that the Grassmannian of oriented two-planes in $\mathbb{R}^{7}$ admits a metric of almost positive curvature, giving the first example of an almost positively curved metric on an irreducible compact symmetric space of rank greater than 1. The construction and verification rely on the Lie group $\mathbf{G}_{2}$ and the octonions, so do not obviously generalize to any other Grassmannians.

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