The curvature operator at the soul

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Authors Luis Guijarro, Gerard Walschap

Publication date 27 November 2013

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3448, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ijm/1385129949

zbMATH Keywords

sectional curvaturecurvature tensorcurvature operatorsoul of a manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We prove two splitting theorems, one topological, the other metric, for open manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature.

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