Pinching the sectional curvature on open manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-017-9758-7MaRDI QIDQ2411206zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuel Streil

Publication date 20 October 2017

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-017-9758-7

zbMATH Keywords

curvature relationGromov's \(h\)-principleopen manifoldpinching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Review text

In this paper, the author proves the following theorem: Theorem. Let \(M\) be an open manifold. Given \(\delta >0\) and \(a\in R\), there exists a Riemannian metric on \(M\) such that all sectional curvatures are in \((a-\delta, a+\delta)\).

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