On a problem of H. Hopf.

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Authors A. V. Pogorelov

Publication date 15 June 2004

Published in Doklady Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

compact orientable surfaceHopf problemoriented surfaceRiemannian metricsphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Local submanifolds (53B25)

Review text

The author considers the following Hopf problem: Does there exist a Riemannian metric of positive curvature on a differentiable variety homeomorphic to the topological product \(S_1 \times S_2\) of two two-dimensional spheres? He answers this question in the case where the sphere \(S_1\) is two-dimensional and the dimension of the sphere \(S_2\) is greater than two (Theorem 1). The author also generalizes his result by taking an arbitrary oriented surface instead of the sphere \(S_1\) (Theorem 2) and by taking an arbitrary compact orientable surface of dimension higher than 2 instead of the sphere \(S_1\) (Theorem 3).

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