scholarly journals Positively curved 6-manifolds with simple symmetry groups

2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
FUQUAN FANG

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.

2019 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID GONZÁLEZ-ÁLVARO ◽  
MARCUS ZIBROWIUS

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2020 (5) ◽  
pp. 1346-1365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason DeVito ◽  
Ezra Nance

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.


2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCOS SALVAI

AbstractLet H be the n-dimensional hyperbolic space of constant sectional curvature –1 and let G be the identity component of the isometry group of H. We find all the G-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on the space $\mathcal{G}_{n}$ of oriented geodesics of H (modulo orientation preserving reparametrizations). We characterize the null, time- and space-like curves, providing a relationship between the geometries of $ \mathcal{G}_{n}$ and H. Moreover, we show that $\mathcal{G}_{3}$ is Kähler and find an orthogonal almost complex structure on $\mathcal{G} _{7}$.


1998 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 105-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiro Shiohama ◽  
Hongwei Xu

Abstract.Making use of 1-forms and geometric inequalities we prove the rigidity property of complete submanifolds Mn with parallel mean curvature normal in a complete and simply connected Riemannian (n+p) -manifold Nn+p with positive sectional curvature. For given integers n, p and for a nonnegative constant H we find a positive number T(n,p) ∈ (0,1) with the property that if the sectional curvature of N is pinched in [T(n,p), 1], and if the squared norm of the second fundamental form is in a certain interval, then Nn+p is isometric to the standard unit (n + p)-sphere. As a consequence, such an M is congruent to one of the five models as seen in our Main Theorem.


2009 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 619-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMID REZA SALIMI MOGHADDAM

In this paper we study sectional curvature of invariant hyper-Hermitian metrics on simply connected 4-dimensional real Lie groups admitting invariant hypercomplex structure. We give the Levi–Civita connections and explicit formulas for computing sectional curvatures of these metrics and show that all these spaces have constant scalar curvature. We also show that they are flat or they have only non-negative or non-positive sectional curvature.


2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (12) ◽  
pp. 2143-2183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Strom Borman ◽  
Mark McLean

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.


2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaigyoung Choe

AbstractWe prove that a domain Ω in the exterior of a convex domain C in a four-dimensional simply connected Riemannian manifold of nonpositive sectional curvature satisfies the relative isoperimetric inequality 64π2 Vol(Ω)3 < Vol(∂Ω ~ ∂C)4. Equality holds if and only if Ω is an Euclidean half ball and ∂Ω ~ ∂C is a hemisphere.


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