The stable converse soul question for positively curved homogeneous spaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1632506394zbMATH Open1491.53067arXiv1707.04711OpenAlexW3204769545WikidataQ115164141 ScholiaQ115164141MaRDI QIDQ2073262FDOQ2073262

Authors: David González-Álvaro, Marcus Zibrowius 

Publication date: 1 February 2022

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

Abstract: The stable converse soul question (SCSQ) asks whether, given a real vector bundle (E) over a compact manifold, some stabilization (E imesR^k) admits a metric with non-negative (sectional) curvature. We extend previous results to show that the SCSQ has an affirmative answer for all real vector bundles over any simply connected homogeneous manifold with positive curvature, except possibly for the Berger space (B^{13}). Along the way, we show that the same is true for all simply connected homogeneous spaces of dimension at most seven, for arbitrary products of simply connected compact rank one symmetric spaces of dimensions multiples of four, and for certain products of spheres. Moreover, we observe that the SCSQ is "stable under tangential homotopy equivalence": if it has an affirmative answer for all vector bundles over a certain manifold (M), then the same is true for any manifold tangentially homotopy equivalent to~(M). Our main tool is topological K-theory. Over (B^{13}), there is essentially one stable class of real vector bundles for which our method fails.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04711

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilizationvector bundlesnon-negative curvaturecompact homogeneous spacessoul theoremtopological K-theoryconverse soul question

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Geometric applications of topological (K)-theory (19L64)

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