Orbifold fibrations of Eschenburg spaces (Q2454837)

The authors consider the family of Eschenburg biquotients \(E_{p,q}=\text{SU}(3)//\text{S}^1\). Under suitable conditions this biquotient is an orbifold. Moreover, further conditions must be satisfied for an Eschenburg metric to have positive curvature. In the reviewed paper the authors study all isometric circle actions on Eschenburg manifolds which act almost freely, i.e., their isotropy groups are finite, and thus give rise to principal orbifold bundle structures. The authors examine in detail their geometric properties. In particular, they obtain a new family of 6-dimensional orbifolds with positive sectional curvature and with small singular locus.