Pinching below 1 4, injectivity radius, and conjugate radius

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214455781MaRDI QIDQ1345153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang T. Meyer, Uwe Abresch

Publication date 26 February 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214455781

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate radiusinjectivity radiuspinchingpositive sectional curvaturesphere theoremweakly \({1\over 4}\)-pinched

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Review text

The injectivity radius of any simply connected, even dimensional Riemannian manifold \(M^ n\) with positive sectional curvature equals its conjugate radius. So far the corresponding result in odd-dimensions has only been known under the additional hypothesis that \(M^ n\) is weakly \({1\over 4}\)-pinched. Moreover, some famous examples due to M. Berger show that the statement is even false, unless \(M^ n\) is at least \({1\over 9}\)-pinched. It has been a long standing problem whether the pinching constant can be pushed below \({1\over 4}\) for odd dimensional manifolds or not. In this paper we prove that this is indeed possible. The pinching constant \(\delta\in [{1\over 9},{1\over 4})\) that is needed in our main theorem does not depend on the dimension. As an application we obtain a sphere theorem for simply connected, odd-dimensional, \(\delta_ n\)-pinched manifolds where the pinching constant \(\delta_ n\) is strictly less than \({1\over 4}\) and up to now still depends on the dimension.

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