Codimension three nonnegatively curved submanifolds with infinite fundamental group (Q627487)
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Codimension three nonnegatively curved submanifolds with infinite fundamental group (English)
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2 March 2011
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The authors investigate conditions on nonnegatively curved submanifolds of codimension three that imply the nonnegativity of the curvature operator. Their main result (Theorem 1.1) states that, if \(M^n \to {\mathbb{R}}^{n+3}\) is an isometric immersion of a complete Riemannian manifold \(M\) with nonnegative sectional curvature, then {\parindent6.5mm \begin{itemize}\item[(i)] if \(M\) has a line and \(f\) is noncylindrical (i.e., it does not split as an extrinsic product \(M_1\times {\mathbb{R}}^m\)), then \(M\) has nonnegative curvature operator; \item[(ii)] if \(M\) contains no lines and is covered by \(\widetilde M \times {\mathbb{R}}\), then the curvature operator of \(\widetilde M\) (and of \(M\)) is nonnegative. \end{itemize}} A result of \textit{J. Cheeger} and \textit{D. Gromoll} [Ann. Math. (2) 96, 413--443 (1972; Zbl 0246.53049)] states that if the fundamental group of a compact manifold of nonnegative curvature is infinite then its universal covering splits isometrically as \(\widetilde M \times {\mathbb{R}}^k\), for \(k > 0\). Using this, the authors classify codimension-three isometric immersions of non-flat compact manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvatures and infinite fundamental group up to diffeomorphism.
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curvature operator
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lines
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nonnegative sectional curvature
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fundamental group
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