On stability of minimal spheres and a two-dimensional version of Synge's theorem (Q2266459): Difference between revisions

The author uses minimal surfaces and the theory of holomorphic vector bundles over the Riemann sphere to prove that a compact Riemannian manifold \(M^ n\), \(n\geq 3\), with positive curvature operators satisfies \(\pi_ 2(M)=0\).