Positively curved homogeneous metrics on spheres

DOI10.1007/S00209-008-0332-7zbMATH Open1230.53049arXiv0707.3056OpenAlexW2066934112WikidataQ125704709 ScholiaQ125704709MaRDI QIDQ1006809FDOQ1006809

Authors: L. Verdiani, Wolfgang Ziller 

Publication date: 26 March 2009

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine homogeneous metrics on spheres and determine which ones have positive sectional curvature. The answer is subtle and surprisingly difficult to prove. In some cases we also determine their pinching constants. This completes the classification of all homogeneous metrics with positive curvature (apart from one special Aloff Wallach space where the set of homogeneous metrics is too large).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3056

zbMATH Keywords

sphereshomogeneous metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Cites Work

• Transformation groups of spheres
• New examples of manifolds with strictly positive curvature
• On a certain family of closed 13-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of positive curvature
• Optimal pinching constants of odd dimensional homogeneous spaces
• Les variétés riemanniennes homogenes simplement connexes de dimension impaire à courbure strictement positive
• Compact homogeneous Riemannian manifolds with strictly positive curvature
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• An infinite family of distinct 7-manifolds admitting positively curved Riemannian structures
• Sectional curvatures of a diagonal family of \(\text{Sp} (n+1)\)-invariant metrics on \((4n+3)\)-dimensional spheres
• Some remarks about Lie groups transitive on spheres and tori
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Sectional curvatures of nonstandard metrics on \(\mathbf {{CP}}^{2n+1}\)
• A family of metric on the 15-dimensional sphere
• The zeroes of nonnegative curvature operators
• Precise estimates for the sectional curvatures of homogeneous Riemannian metrics on Wallach spaces
• Die Krümmung des Raumes \(Sp(2)/SU(2)\) von Berger
• The curvature of SU (5)/(\(Sp(2) \times S^1\))
• The even dimensional pinching problem and SU(3)/T

Cited In (23)

• Recent progress on homogeneous Finsler spaces with positive curvature
• Homogeneous metrics with nonnegative curvature
• Curvatures of homogeneous Randers spaces
• Flag manifolds with strongly positive curvature
• Metrics of positive curvature with conic singularities on the sphere
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Homogeneous Randers spaces with isotropic S-curvature and positive flag curvature
• Jacobi relations on naturally reductive spaces
• Homogeneous \((\alpha, \beta)\)-spaces with positive flag curvature and vanishing S-curvature
• Geometrically formal homogeneous metrics of positive curvature
• Positive metrics on reductive homogeneous spaces
• Strongly positive curvature
• On the dynamics of a three-dimensional differential system related to the normalized Ricci flow on generalized Wallach spaces
• An exotic \({T_{1}\mathbb{S}^4}\) with positive curvature
• Generalized normal homogeneous Riemannian metrics on spheres and projective spaces
• The evolution of positively curved invariant Riemannian metrics on the Wallach spaces under the Ricci flow
• Instantons and Killing spinors
• On uniqueness and existence of conformally compact Einstein metrics with homogeneous conformal infinity. II
• Normal homogeneous Finsler spaces
• On the Ricci flow of homogeneous metrics on spheres
• Generalized normal homogeneous spheres
• Generalized normal homogeneous spheres \(S^{4n+3}\) with greatest connected motion group \(\mathrm{Sp}{(n+1)\cdot \mathrm{U}(1)}\)
• Metrics of positive scalar curvature on spheres and the Gromov-Lawson conjecture

This page was built for publication: Positively curved homogeneous metrics on spheres

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1006809)