Revisiting homogeneous spaces with positive curvature

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2015-0053MaRDI QIDQ1747192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Burkhard Wilking, Wolfgang Ziller

Publication date 4 May 2018

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06256

zbMATH Keywords

classificationhomogeneous spacepositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: As was recently observed by M. Xu and J. Wolf, there is a gap in Berard Bergery's classification of odd dimensional positively curved homogeneous spaces. Since this classification has been used in other papers as well, we give a modern, complete and self contained proof (in odd as well as even dimensions), confirming that there are indeed no new examples.

Review text

The list of simply connected, compact homogeneous \(n\)-dimensional spaces \(K/H\) of positive sectional curvature consists of round spheres \(S^n\), compact symmetric spaces of rank one (\(\mathbb{CP}^n, \mathbb{HP}^n\), \(\mathbb{OP}^2\)), Aloff-Wallach \(7\)-spaces \(\mathrm{SU}(3)/\mathrm U(1)_{k,l}\) and sporadic instances for \(n=6, 12, 24\) (Wallach flags) and \(n=7, 13\) . This classification is the result of a joint effort by \textit{M. Berger} [Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Sci. Fis. Mat., III. Ser. 15, 179--246 (1961; Zbl 0101.14201)], \textit{S. Aloff} and \textit{N. R. Wallach} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 81, 93--97 (1975; Zbl 0362.53033)], \textit{L. Bérard Bergery} [J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 55, 47--68 (1976; Zbl 0289.53037)] and \textit{B. Wilking} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 127, No. 4, 1191--1194 (1999; Zbl 0948.53025)]. In [Differ. Geom. Appl. 42, 115--124 (2015; Zbl 1326.53066)] \textit{M. Xu} and \textit{J. A. Wolf} reopened the classification by pointing out a gap in the odd-dimensional list. The paper under review settles the matter, and provides a novel and complete proof of the classification, excluding potential new candidates.

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