Ricci curvature of double manifolds via isoparametric foliations

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Abstract: Given a closed manifold M and a vector bundle xi of rank n over M, by gluing two copies of the disc bundle of xi, we can obtain a closed manifold D(xi,M), the so-called double manifold. In this paper, we firstly prove that each sphere bundle Sr(xi) of radius r>0 is an isoparametric hypersurface in the total space of xi equipped with a connection metric, and for r>0 small enough, the induced metric of Sr(xi) has positive Ricci curvature under the additional assumptions that M has a metric with positive Ricci curvature and ngeq3. As an application, if M admits a metric with positive Ricci curvature and ngeq2, then we construct a metric with positive Ricci curvature on D(xi,M). Moreover, under the same metric, D(xi,M) admits a natural isoparametric foliation. For a compact minimal isoparametric hypersurface Yn in Sn+1(1), which separates Sn+1(1) into S+n+1 and Sn+1, one can get double manifolds D(S+n+1) and D(Sn+1). Inspired by Tang, Xie and Yan's work on scalar curvature of such manifolds with isoparametric foliations(cf. cite{TXY12}), we study Ricci curvature of them with isoparametric foliations in the last part.



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