Nonnegatively and Positively curved manifolds

zbMath1162.53026arXiv0707.3091MaRDI QIDQ3525210

Burkhard Wilking

Publication date: 11 September 2008

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3091

zbMATH Keywords

rigidityfundamental groupRiemannian submersioncurvature operatorsoul theoremRicci flowHopf fibrationisotropic curvatureisometric actionsphere theoremcohomogeneitypositively curved manifoldvirtually abelian groupAleksandrov spacetotal Betti numbernonnegatively curved manifoldpinching constantrationally elliptic manifoldstrictly pointwise quarter pinched manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Rigidity results (53C24) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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