Rational homotopy theory and nonnegative curvature

DOI10.1007/S10114-004-0466-4MaRDI QIDQ2431883zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shaobing Wu, Jianzhong Pan

Publication date 24 October 2006

Published in Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106262

zbMATH Keywords

complete metricvector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global submanifolds (53C40) Rational homotopy theory (55P62)

Abstract: In this note, we answer positively a question by Belegradek and Kapovitch about the relation between rational homotopy theory and a problem in Riemannian geometry which asks that total spaces of which vector bundles over compact nonnegative curved manifolds admit (complete) metrics with nonnegative curvature.

Review text

This paper describes a class of closed smooth manifolds \(M\) \ for which there is a vector bundle over \(M\) \ whose total space does not admit a complete metric with nonnegative curvature.

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Cited in

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• Rational homotopy theory and geometric structures on smooth manifolds
• Rank 1 aspherical manifolds which do not support any nonpositively curved metric
• Poisson metrics and Higgs bundles over noncompact Kähler manifolds
• Almost non-negative curvature and rational ellipticity in cohomogeneity two
• Applications of rational homotopy to geometry (results, problems, conjectures)
• Rational homology manifolds and hypersurface normalizations
• Obstructions to nonnegative curvature and rational homotopy theory
• Topological obstructions to nonnegative curvature

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