Topology of non-negatively curved manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-013-9407-8MaRDI QIDQ2249602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christine M. Escher, Wolfgang Ziller

Publication date 2 July 2014

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5997

zbMATH Keywords

Eschenburg spaceKreck-Stolz invariantnon-negative curvaturesphere bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: We examine several classes of manifolds which have the same cohomology ring as an Eschenburg space (a family of biquotients which is a main source of manifolds with positive curvature). One family are the 3-sphere bundles over CP^2. Another are the circle bundles over a base, which itself is one of the family of CP^1 bundles over CP^2. We classify such manifolds up to diffeomorphism using the Kreck-Stolz invariants. Comparisons of the invariants is then used to find many diffeomorphism of the total space of these bundles with positively curved Eschenburg spaces. The total space of each bundle (in the case where the bundle is not spin) also admit a metric with non-negative sectional curvature, and in some cases an Einstein metric as well.

Review text

The authors examine the question of distinguishing (topologically) manifolds which admit metrics with non-negative sectional curvature from manifolds which admit metrics with positive sectional curvature. The article examines the question in the context of a manifold \(M\) which is a compact, simply connected, seven-dimensional manifold with \(H^i(M;\mathbb Z)=\mathbb Z\) for \(i=0,2,5,7\) and \(H^4(M,\mathbb Z)=\mathbb Z_r\) for \(r\geq1\) where the square of a generator of \(H^2(M;\mathbb Z)\) generates \(H^4(M;\mathbb Z)\); for example, some such manifolds arise as the total space of \(3\)-sphere bundles over \(\mathbb{CP}^2\). The diffeomorphism types of these manifolds are compared with known examples of positively curved manifolds (in particular Eschenburg spaces). \S1 of the paper introduces the problem, \S2 deals with preliminaries, \S3 discusses the Kreck-Stolz invariants (which are based on the Eells-Kuiper \(\mu\)-invariant), \S4 treats the topology of sphere bundles over \(\mathbb{CP}^2\), \S5 is concerned with the topology of circle bundles, \S6 involves the geometry of sphere bundles and circle bundles, \S7 involves spin \(S^3\) and \(S^1\) bundles over \(\mathbb{CP}^2\), and \S8 discusses various diffeomorphisms obtained by comparing Kreck-Stolz invariants.

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