Stationary values of sectional curvature in Grassmann manifolds of bivectors. (Q1608091)

The author considers calculating the stationary values, which are known in \([0,2]\), of sectional curvature in the Grassmann manifold \(G_{2,n}^+, (n\geq 4)\). This paper is the author's one of a series studies focused on the Grassmann manifolds. The primary consideration is based on the fact that the Grassmannian \(G_{p,n}^+\) is a Riemannian homogeneous space, so that the studying is restricted at an arbitrary fixed point \(\omega\in G_{p,n}^+\). Together with the author's earlier results, the problem on finding the stationary values in the \(G_{2,n}^+\) reduces only to the cases of \(n=3,4,5,6\). In case of \(n=3\), the result is trivial. In cases of \(n=4,5,6\), the exact calculation is by evaluating the gradient of the function \(\overline{K}=A(X,Y)/C(X,Y)\), where \(A(X,Y)=\langle B(X,X),B(Y,Y)\rangle - B^2(X,Y)\), \(C(X,Y)=(X\vee Y)^2\), \(B\) denotes the second fundamental form, \(\vee\) is the operation of exterior multiplication, \(X,Y\in T_{\omega}G_{2,n}^+\). In cases of \(n=6,5\), the calculation is rather straightforward. In case of \(n=4\) the calculation is directly proceeded in the \(G_{2,4}^+\) which is well known as the hypersurface in the 5-sphere.