Orbifold fibrations of Eschenburg spaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9174-4MaRDI QIDQ2454837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luis A. Florit, Wolfgang Ziller

Publication date 22 October 2007

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608745

zbMATH Keywords

almost free circle actionsEschenburg spaceorbifold fibrationspositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: We study isometric circle actions on 7 dimensional positively curved Eschenburg spaces which are almost free, thus giving rise to orbifold fibrations of these spaces. This shows in particular that every known example of compact manifolds with positive sectional curvature is the total space of an orbifold fibration. We then study in detail the geometry of the singular locus and how to minimize it. As a consequence we obtain, for example, a six dimensional compact positively curved orbifold with only two singular points with orbifold groups Z_2.

Review text

The authors consider the family of Eschenburg biquotients \(E_{p,q}=\text{SU}(3)//\text{S}^1\). Under suitable conditions this biquotient is an orbifold. Moreover, further conditions must be satisfied for an Eschenburg metric to have positive curvature. In the reviewed paper the authors study all isometric circle actions on Eschenburg manifolds which act almost freely, i.e., their isotropy groups are finite, and thus give rise to principal orbifold bundle structures. The authors examine in detail their geometric properties. In particular, they obtain a new family of 6-dimensional orbifolds with positive sectional curvature and with small singular locus.

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