Certain 4-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature

DOI10.1007/S11464-008-0037-6MaRDI QIDQ1001306zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jianguo Cao

Publication date 17 February 2009

Published in Frontiers of Mathematics in China (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701742

zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvaturesectional curvatureWeyl tensorminimal surface4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Calculus on manifolds; nonlinear operators (58C99)

Abstract: In this paper, we study certain compact 4-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature $K$. If $s$ is the scalar curvature and $W_{+}$ is the self-dual part of Weyl tensor, then it will be shown that there is no metric $g$ on $S^{2}imes{S}^2$ with both (i) $K>0$ and (ii) $1/6s-W_{+}ge0$. We also investigate other aspects of 4-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature. One of our results implies a theorem of Hamilton: ``If a simply-connected, closed 4-manifold $M^4$ admits a metric $g$ of non-negative curvature operator, then $M^4$ is one of $S^4$, $BbbC{P}^2$ and $S^{2}imes{S}^2$". Our method is different from Hamilton's and is much simpler. A new version of the second variational formula for minimal surfaces in 4-manifolds is proved.

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