Geometrically formal homogeneous metrics of positive curvature

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DOI10.1007/S12220-015-9581-YzbMATH Open1338.53058arXiv1407.6201OpenAlexW2049188150MaRDI QIDQ282803FDOQ282803

Wolfgang Ziller, Manuel Amann

Publication date: 12 May 2016

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

Abstract: A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of harmonic forms is again harmonic, which implies in the compact case that the manifold is topologically formal in the sense of rational homotopy theory. A manifold admitting a Riemannian metric of positive sectional curvature is conjectured to be topologically formal. Nonetheless, we show that among the homogeneous Riemannian metrics of positive sectional curvature a geometrically formal metric is either symmetric, or a metric on a rational homology sphere.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6201




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