Certain 4-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature

DOI10.1007/S11464-008-0037-6zbMATH Open1167.53035arXivmath/0701742OpenAlexW2033854292MaRDI QIDQ1001306FDOQ1001306

Jianguo Cao

Publication date: 17 February 2009

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

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.

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)

Cites Work

• Pseudo holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds
• The existence of minimal immersions of 2-spheres
• Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature
• Explicit self-dual metrics on \({\mathbb{C}}{\mathbb{P}}_ 2\#\cdots \#{\mathbb{C}}{\mathbb{P}}_ 2\)
• The uniformization theorem for compact Kähler manifolds of nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Les variétés de dimension 4 à signature non nulle dont la courbure est harmonique sont d'Einstein
• Opérateur de courbure et laplacien des formes différentielles d'une variété riemannienne
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the Topology of Self-Dual 4-Manifolds
• Connected sums of self-dual manifolds and deformations of singular spaces
• On Einstein manifolds of positive sectional curvature
• On the structure of complete manifolds of nonnegative curvature
• Minimal two-spheres and the topology of manifolds with positive curvature on totally isotropic two-planes
• Curvature, diameter and Betti numbers
• The second variation of area of minimal surfaces in four-manifolds
• Four-manifolds with \(\delta W^+=0\) and Einstein constants of the sphere.
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Classification of manifolds with weakly 1/4-pinched curvatures
• Compact self-dual manifolds with positive scalar curvature
• Some examples of manifolds of nonnegative curvature
• Kähler surfaces of nonnegative curvature
• Compact Hermitian surfaces and isotropic curvature
• On the instability of a minimal surface in a 4-manifold whose curvature lies in the interval \((1/4,1]\).
• Nonexistence of minimizing harmonic maps from 2-spheres
• ON THE INSTABILITY OF A MINIMAL SURFACE IN AN $ n$-DIMENSIONAL RIEMANNIAN SPACE OF POSITIVE CURVATURE

Cited In (11)

• Curvature, Sphere Theorems, and the Ricci flow
• A knot characterization and 1-connected nonnegatively curved 4-manifolds with circle symmetry
• Tits alternative for closed real analytic 4-manifolds of nonpositive curvature.
• Geometrically formal 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature
• Some remarks on positively curved 4-manifolds
• The second variation of area of minimal surfaces in four-manifolds
• A remark on positively curved 4-manifolds
• Fundamental group of self-dual four-manifolds with positive scalar curvature
• Einstein four-manifolds with sectional curvature bounded from above
• Nonpositivity: Curvature vs. curvature operator
• Title not available (Why is that?)

   Recommendations

• Some results on the topology of four-manifolds with nonnegative curvature 👍 👎
• Geometrically formal 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature 👍 👎
• A remark on positively curved 4-manifolds 👍 👎
• Self-duality and 4-manifolds with nonnegative curvature on totally isotropic 2-planes 👍 👎
• Positively curved 4-manifolds and the nonnegativity of isotropic curvatures 👍 👎

This page was built for publication: Certain 4-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1001306)