Flag manifolds with strongly positive curvature

DOI10.1007/S00209-015-1464-1MaRDI QIDQ2516484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Renato G. Bettiol, Ricardo A. E. Mendes

Publication date 3 August 2015

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0039

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous metricpositive curvatureWallach flag manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: We obtain a complete description of the moduli spaces of homogeneous metrics with strongly positive curvature on the Wallach flag manifolds $W^6$, $W^{12}$ and $W^{24}$, which are respectively the manifolds of complete flags in $mathbb{C}^3$, $mathbb{H}^3$ and $mathbb{Ca}^3$. Together with our earlier work, this concludes the classification of simply-connected homogeneous spaces that admit a homogeneous metric with strongly positive curvature.

Review text

The authors prove that except for the Cayley plane \({\mathbb C}a P^2\), all closed simply connected homogeneous spaces with positive sectional curvature admit a homogeneous metric with strongly positive curvature. They also prove that a homogeneous metric on a so-called Wallach flag manifold (i.e., the manifold of complete flags in \({\mathbb C}^3\), \({\mathbb H}^3\) or \({\mathbb C}a^3\)) has strongly nonegative curvature if and only if it has a nonnegative sectional curvature.

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