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

rigidity; fundamental group; Riemannian submersion; curvature operator; soul theorem; Ricci flow; Hopf fibration; isotropic curvature; isometric action; sphere theorem; cohomogeneity; positively curved manifold; virtually abelian group; Aleksandrov space; total Betti number; nonnegatively curved manifold; pinching constant; rationally elliptic manifold; strictly pointwise quarter pinched manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58D27: Moduli problems for differential geometric structures

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

53C24: Rigidity results

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions

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