Nonnegative curvature and cobordism type (Q2384735): Difference between revisions

The author first investigates the oriented cobordism type of the total space of certain \(\mathbb{CP}^{2}\)-bundles over \(S^{4}\). Then, using the works of Borel and Hirzebruch on homogeneous bundles, he proves his fundamental result: ``In every dimension \(n=4k, k\geq 2\), there exist infinite sequences of closed simply connected Riemannian \(n\)-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature and mutually distinct Pontrjagin numbers. In particular, in all these dimensions there are infinitely many oriented cobordism types of non-negatively curved manifolds''.