Examples of flag-wise positively curved spaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2017.03.015MaRDI QIDQ2363168zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ming Xu

Publication date 13 July 2017

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01731

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricleft-invariant metricflag curvatureflag-wise positively curved conditionKilling navigation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: A Finsler space $(M,F)$ is called flag-wise positively curved, if for any $xinM$ and any tangent plane $mathbfPsubset{T}_{x}M$, we can find a nonzero vector $yinmathbfP$, such that the flag curvature $K^F(x,y,mathbfP)>0$. Though compact positively curved spaces are very rare in both Riemannian and Finsler geometry, flag-wise positively curved metrics should be easy to be found. A generic Finslerian perturbation for a non-negatively curved homogeneous metric may have a big chance to produce flag-wise positively curved metrics. This observation leads our discovery of these metrics on many compact manifolds. First we prove any Lie group $G$ such that its Lie algebra $mathfrakg$ is compact non-Abelian and $dimmathfrakc(mathfrakg)leq1$ admits flag-wise positively curved left invariant Finsler metrics. Similar techniques can be applied to our exploration for more general compact coset spaces. We will prove, whenever $G/H$ is a compact simply connected coset space, $G/H$ and $S^{1}imesG/H$ admit flag-wise positively curved Finsler metrics. This provides abundant examples for this type of metrics, which are not homogeneous in general.

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