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

DOI10.1007/BF00140754MaRDI QIDQ1101698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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