Isometry types of frame bundles

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.285.393zbMATH Open1360.53047arXiv1405.7453OpenAlexW2277298146MaRDI QIDQ346700FDOQ346700

Authors: Wouter van Limbeek 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the orthonormal frame bundle F(M) of a Riemannian manifold M. A construction of Sasaki defines a canonical Riemannian metric on F(M). We prove that for two closed Riemannian n-manifolds M and N, the frame bundles F(M) and F(N) are isometric if and only if M and N are isometric, except possibly in dimensions 3, 4, and 8. This answers a question of Benson Farb except in dimensions 3, 4, and 8.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7453

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zbMATH Keywords

Killing vector fieldframe bundleisometry typelarge group actionSasaki-Mok metricsymmetry degree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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• On the geometry of orthonormal frame bundles. II
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