Smooth Great Circle Fibrations and an Application to the Topological Blaschke Conjecture

DOI10.2307/2001686MaRDI QIDQ3484038zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chung-Tao Yang

Publication date 1990

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2001686

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphic to \({\mathbb{C}}P^ n\)homotopy type of complex projective spacesHopf fibrationsmooth circle fibrations of round spheres and Blaschke manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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