Geometrically formal 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature
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Publication:2340904
DOI10.4310/CAG.2015.V23.N3.A2zbMATH Open1319.53027arXiv1212.1325MaRDI QIDQ2340904FDOQ2340904
Publication date: 21 April 2015
Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of any two harmonic forms is again harmonic. We classify geometrically formal compact 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature. If the sectional curvature is strictly positive, the manifold must be homeomorphic to S^4 or diffeomorphic to CP^2. This conclusion stills holds true if the sectional curvature is strictly positive and we relax the condition of geometric formality to the requirement that the length of harmonic 2-forms is not too nonconstant. In particular, the Hopf conjecture on S^2 x S^2 holds in this class of manifolds.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1325
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