Rational homotopy theory and nonnegative curvature

DOI10.1007/S10114-004-0466-4zbMATH Open1102.53023arXivmath/0106262OpenAlexW2162163885MaRDI QIDQ2431883FDOQ2431883

Authors: Shaobing Wu, Jianzhong Pan 

Publication date: 24 October 2006

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

vector bundlecomplete metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

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