A class of U(n)-invariant Riemannian metrics on manifolds diffeomorphic to odd-dimensional spheres

DOI10.1007/BF00975161MaRDI QIDQ1335901zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors D. E. Vol'per, V. N. Berestovskij

Publication date 8 November 1994

Published in Siberian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975161

zbMATH Keywords

invariant Riemannian metricsradius of injectivitysectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Review text

The authors study \(U(n)\)-invariant Riemannian metrics on the sphere \(S^{2n - 1} = U(n) / U(n - 1)\). Such metrics \(g\) up to a homothety depend on one parameter. The sectional curvature of \(g\) is calculated and the radius of injectivity is estimated. The authors show that some of these invariant metrics \(g\) on an odd dimensional sphere have a positive sectional curvature \(K\), \(0 < K \leq \lambda\), but the radius of injectivity \(d_ p\) in any point \(p\) does not satisfy Klingenberg's inequality \(d_ p \geq \pi/\sqrt{\lambda}\) which is valid for positively curved even dimensional manifolds. It is proved also that the sphere \(S^ 3\) with the standard metric of sectional curvature 1 is locally isometric to the sphere bundle of tangent vectors of length 1/2 on the 2- sphere \(S^ 2\) of radius 1/2 equipped with the Sasakian metric.

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