Flag manifolds with strongly positive curvature (Q2516484)

The authors prove that except for the Cayley plane \({\mathbb C}a P^2\), all closed simply connected homogeneous spaces with positive sectional curvature admit a homogeneous metric with strongly positive curvature. They also prove that a homogeneous metric on a so-called Wallach flag manifold (i.e., the manifold of complete flags in \({\mathbb C}^3\), \({\mathbb H}^3\) or \({\mathbb C}a^3\)) has strongly nonegative curvature if and only if it has a nonnegative sectional curvature.