Fibrations of spheres by parallel great spheres and Berger's rigidity theorem

DOI10.1007/BF00140754zbMATH Open0642.53046OpenAlexW1997516874MaRDI QIDQ1101698FDOQ1101698

Authors: Herman Gluck, Wolfgang Ziller, Frank W. Warner 

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00140754

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zbMATH Keywords

cut locusHopf fibrationrigidity theoremcurvature pinchinground sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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• On Blaschke's conjecture
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• Rigidity of the Hopf fibration
• Germs of fibrations of spheres by great circles always extend to the whole sphere
• Substantial Riemannian submersions of \(S^{15}\) with 7-dimensional fibres
• Lipschitz minimality of Hopf fibrations and Hopf vector fields
• Foliations, submanifolds, and mixed curvature
• Volume-minimizing cycles in Grassmann manifolds
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• AN INTRINSIC PROOF OF GROMOLL–GROVE DIAMETER RIGIDITY THEOREM
• Geometry--5
• A generalization of Obata's theorem

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