Pinching and concordance theory

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214454299MaRDI QIDQ1312152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael S. Weiss

Publication date 13 March 1994

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214454299

zbMATH Keywords

exotic spheresMorse functionssphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60)

Review text

It is known that a complete simply connected manifold \(M\) whose sectional curvature \(sec(M)\) satisfies \(1/4 < sec(M) \leq 1\) is homeomorphic to a sphere (Rauch-Berger-Klingenberg). Beyond that, the diffeomorphism type of \(M\) is subject to the following condition (from ``Theorem A and ``Remark 1.8). Let \(W(M)\) denote the space of smooth Morse functions on \(M\) having exactly two critical points. With the above hypotheses on \(M\), the map from \(W(M)\) to \((M\times M)\setminus \Delta\) (where \(\Delta =\)diagonal) which sends \(f\) to the ordered pair of its critical points has a section respecting the canonical involutions. (The involutions send \(f\) to \(-f\), and \((x,y)\) to \((y,x)\).) Methods from concordance theory and algebraic \(K\)-theory show that many exotic spheres do not satisfy the condition.

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• Standard special generic maps of homotopy spheres into Euclidean spaces
• The Gromoll filtration, KO-characteristic classes and metrics of positive scalar curvature
• Exotic spheres and curvature
• Orthogonal Calculus
• Special generic maps and Gromoll filtration
• Introduction to global singularity theory of differentiable maps

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